The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are Porphyrias

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The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are Porphyrias

Lover’ by Robert Browning and Stop All The Clocks by W.H Auden.

A Comparison of Two Poems About Love.

The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are ‘Porphyria’s

Lover’ by Robert Browning and ‘Stop All The Clocks’ by W.H Auden.

‘Porphyria’s Lover’, a dramatic monologue was written as a piece of

entertainment in Victorian times, it would have been acted out to an

audience. The narrative of this poem is that Porphyria was seeing

someone below her own social class and no one knew about their

relationship. She left the party early to go and see him as shown in

the lines “When glided in Porphyria ; strait she shut the cold out and

the storm” even they both knew that they could never be together

forever.

‘Stop All The Clocks’ is about the death of a much loved partner , The

speaker wants all the ordinary thing in his life to stop happening and

he also wants the whole world to stop. Now he has lost the love of his

life he has no reason to go on any more, as shown in the lines “Stop

all the clocks, cut of the telephone, prevent the dog from barking

with a juicy bone”

‘Porphyria’s Lover’ a very dramatic monologue as shown in the lines

“and strangled her. No pain felt she, I am quite sure she felt no

pain.” This shows that there is a use of dramatic language, he did not

want her to feel no pain because he loved her, it also emphasises the

point that she is dead.

This poem is written as one long story, consisting of one long stanza.

The poem is written in first person as if there is an imaginary

speaker, the young man. No one knows who he could be, perhaps Browning

heard about the story from real life and turned it onto a poem.

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repetition is used it forces the message across to the reader, in this

case the message was that the heart broken lover who lost there loved

one is saying that his lover was only his and no one else’s, also no

one else would understand his feelings because o one would understand

why he was hurting so much.

The final reason why I preferred this poem to ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is

because the heart broken man just wanted everything in the world to

stop as shown in the lines “pack up the moon and dismantle the sun”

and I can understand that and it made me feel sympathy for him. The

reason why he wanted everything to stop was that he had no reason to

carry on in life. He has lost the person who was the centre of his

world and he is now lost because he is by himself. This poem is a

very expressive poem and it explains his feelings and what he is going

through.

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