Porphyria's Lover

Diction

• Blatant- he gets right to the point
• ex- "and strangled her"- line 41
• uses adoring words to describe his wife
• line 52- "rosy little head"

Imagery

• Line 20 "yellow hair" 
• Line 9- warm cottage
• Line 48- "burning kiss"
• Line 52- "smiling little rosy head"
• Line 7- "rain storm"

tone

• before line 26 - warm, loving, and caring demeanor 
• after line 26- cold, hard, and mean demeanor 

theme

• Love makes you crazy- he may have killed her because he was jealous 
• Power in killing- he felt energized and happier after killing his wife

Rhyme

• Rhyme scheme doesn't change- shows the speaker isn't affected by killing
• ex. wound, around in lines 39 and 40 show the speaker doesn't feel guilty

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Symbols

• Her hair is mentioned in lines 18, 20, 38, and 39.  
• It symbolizes his psychotic state of mind 
• Since it goes from being a sign of her womanhood to being used to kill her
• Eyes- speakers of the language

Personification

• line 45- "laughed the blue eyes"

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