Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory Essay -- English Literature

Porphyrias Lover and The Laboratory Porphyrias Lover and The Laboratory both deal with hatreds ofpassion. Explore slipway browning explains ways of obsessive nature ofhis character and analysis the effects of literary techniques.Porphyrias Lover is a poem about a crime and passion. Porphyria isa young, wealthy girl who seems to have abandoned her familystradition of choosing wealthy men as lovers. Her lover remainsanonymous, this could be because he has bump off her and does not wanthis name releasing. There is no actual reference as to why hecommitted this crime we can only hand suggestions. Perhaps it wasbecause she would not forsake her affluent companions for him, orbecause he felt she did not share his love for her. This poem is inthe lovers pass of view only, so we can not really know howPorphyria is feeling, we can only guess from her body language and heractions mentioned and her actions. It is a Victorian poem and Browninguses sexual references, which is very unusual b ecause sex was a tabooand was not discussed openly in Victorian times.At the beginning of the poem, there is a ramp brewing which ismirroring the lovers feelings. He is indignant at Porphyria anddesperately wants her loveThe sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm tops cut for spite,The wind has been personified which is particularly effective becauseit heightens the anger the lover is feeling and soon realises this.Browning cleverly sets the scene by using strong word such(prenominal) assullen, tore and vex. Already we can see that this man, thelover, desperately craves the love of Porphyria, and leads us toquestion why he is so angry and what happened previous to this as tomake him ... ...eless of body,and he wants her, he possesses her. This time it is she that needshim, she was not strong enough before but now it is she that needs him.He is trying to make comparisons from before and now, he wants to goback to that moment and hold it.I propped her breaker point up as befo re,We see that, in death, the head is extremely heavy now because he nowhas to hold it in place she has now been reduced to a limp corpse.The lover depersonalises her by view for her, and now she trulyis, his possession. He feels he has won the battle with her wealthfamily and friendsAnd I, its love, am gained insteadHe now believes that he has evaded the law and has her forever now, unwilled to share her with anyone else. He feels God is condoning hisactions, and will not be punished, he is arrogantly believing he hasescaped charges of murder.