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Porphyria's Lover. By Robert Browning. The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight. She shut the cold out and the storm,
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The opening four lines provide the setting and tone. It was evening, and the rain began to fall. The wind is described as “sullen,” which allows the reader to experience the gloomy, downcast mood the speaker intends to present. The wind is then personified, and the speaker says it “was soon awake.” Once the wind woke up, it “tore the elm-tops down ...
The next lines give the reader insight into the speaker’s feelings. Now that the setting and tone are set up, the speaker lets the reader into his mind. He explains that his heart is “fit to break” as he listens to the wind and rain outside his door. Then, there is a sudden shift in tone and mood when he describes how Porphyria “glided in” and “shu...
These lines imply that Porphyria has offered herself to the speaker. She comes in from the storm, starts a fire, stands up, and begins to shed her clothes. The speaker describes each piece of clothing as she removes it. She begins with her coat and her shawl, and then she removes her gloves and her hat. The description of her clothes allows the rea...
With these lines, it is evident that she is offering herself to him completely. She sits down beside him and calls to him. It is unclear what this call meant, but the speaker says that he did not reply to her. This allows the reader to see that the speaker is unsure how to respond to Porphyria’s offer. She does not seem to be discouraged. It would ...
With these lines, Porphyria continues to try to seduce the speaker. She spreads her hair, takes his face, and makes him lay his cheek against her hair.
When Porphyria has made every seductive gesture she could configure, and the speaker has still made no move, she finally speaks of her love for him. The speaker describes her confession as a “murmuring” and then claims she is “too weak for all her heart’s endeavor.” The fact that she murmured her love to him in his ear rather than proclaiming it pu...
These lines reveal that Porphyria left a “gay feast” just to come through the storm to see him. This gives some insight into what her “vainer ties” might be. While the speaker is alone in a small cottage that can barely withstand the rain and wind, Porphyria has just come from a fancy party. This suggests that she is rich and he is poor. This is pe...
At this point, the speaker looks up into her eyes, and he sees that she is happy and proud. He realizes that despite their differences in wealth and class, she holds him in high regard. This is why he claims, “At last I knew Porphyria worshiped me.” Before this moment, the speaker was unsure whether Porphyria’s love was genuine. This revelation sur...
These lines are shocking. The reader expects the speaker to reject or accept Porphyria’s love but not strangle her. For one moment, the speaker has her completely as his own. He has her in his arms, looks into her eyes, and sees genuine love for him. He fears he will lose her, and he wants to keep her forever. So, rather than accept or reject her l...
With these lines, the reader begins to understand the true depth of the speaker’s mental illness. He had wanted her for so long, and when she finally came to him in love, he was afraid that he would lose her, so he killed her. Now that he has killed her, he feels that he finally has her as his own because she cannot leave him anymore. He opens and ...
"Porphyria’s Lover" is a poem by the British poet Robert Browning, first published in 1836. Along with"My Last Duchess," it has become one of Browning’s most famous dramatic monologues—due in no small part to its shockingly dark ending. In the poem, the speaker describes being visited by his passionate lover, Porphyria.
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"Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with " Johannes Agricola in Meditation " under the title "Madhouse Cells".
A summary of “Porphyria’s Lover” (1836) in Robert Browning's Robert Browning's Poetry. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Robert Browning's Poetry and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Porphyria’s love: she guessed not how Her darling one wish would be heard. And thus we sit together now, And all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word! This poem is in the public domain.
Summary & Analysis. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” first appeared in 1936, and it was later republished in his landmark collection of 1842, Dramatic Lyrics. Though Browning called the poems in this collection “lyrics,” critics today refer to them as “monologues.”
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