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Porphyria's Lover
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A speaker sits alone in a cottage on a stormy night, waiting for Porphyria, the woman he loves, who arrives out of the weather to be with him. As he tells the scene in a single voice, his thoughts move between tenderness and a growing, disturbing fixation on the moment they share. The poem is a dramatic monologue, so the reader hears only one side of events and must judge what the speaker reveals and what he leaves out. Its clipped lines and vivid images build an atmosphere of obsession, leading toward a shocking turn that the poem presents without explanation. It is a short, intense piece that uses a quiet domestic setting to explore love twisted by possession.
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