Chapter

1. Welcome

2. Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning

3. Overview
About the poet
About the poem
Dramatic
Monologue

4. Robert Browning
Victorian Poet
Tennyson’s Contemporary
Spouse of Elizabeth Barret

5. Dramatic Monologue
Browning experimented with various
forms especially the Dramatic
Monologue
Eg-Porphyria's Lover

6. The poem explores the extreme
and morbid state of mind.
The weather sets the tone of the
speaker.
Describes a melancholic mood

7. The lover commits murder and
justifies the act as noble and
acceptable.
Portrays it as an act of love and
rationality .

8. 10.20.XX
The poem gives a shocking
revelation that the lover has just
kille his lover at a moment when
he felt Porphyria loves him so
that she would forever be with
him.

9. The poem shows the unstable
mind of the lover.
Excellent example of a Dramatic
Monologue .
One of the best poems of
Browning depicting morbid state of
mind.

10. Thank You