Porphyria's Lover

The poem “Porphyria’s Lover” By Robert Browning is a rather alarming poem written in first person about the speaker and the relationship he has with a woman named Porphyria. The poem started out innocently enough by describing how Porphyria entered a building soaking wet, took off her things, and then proceeded to build a fire and join her lover (the speaker). But then the speaker starts to show signs of highly abusive behavior when he says,
Murmuring how she loved me,
Too weak, for all her hearts endeavour,
To set its struggling passion free
From pride, and vainer ties dissever
And give herself to me forever.

From this, we can deduce that the speaker feels that Porphyria owes him sex and he is not happy that she does not give it to him willingly. Then, he continues, “But passion would sometimes prevail.”(26). In other words, he raped her multiple times, but he did not think of it as rape, since he is apparently Porphyria’s owner. Then, continues,

(26-30)

Okay, so this is the point in the poem where the speaker becomes pissed. It seems like he is angry because she is willing to risk freezing to death by traveling through the wind and rain, and yet she refuses to willingly have sex with, even though he feels he treats her well. So he murders her: And all her hair In one long, yellow string I found Three times her little throat around And strangled her. No pain felt