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Essay Archive - The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
"Porphyria's Lover" is an exhilarating love story given from a lunatic's
point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that
he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her,
though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the separation of
social classes and describes the "triumph" of one man over an unjust society.
As is often the case in fiction, the speaker of "Porphyria's Lover" does not
give accurate information in the story.
The speaker is a deranged man who will stop at nothing to keep his de....
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