Dramatic monologue: man meets woman and ends up killing her
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'That moment she was mine, mine fair;/...
...Perfectly pure and good'
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Describing her entrance
'Glided in Porphyria'
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'Made her smooth...
...white shoulder bare'
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Final line of poem
'And yet God has not said a word!'
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Form of poem
Dramatic monologue, single stanza, very structured
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Context of poem
Porphyria is a disease, leading to madness, lowers your class (no social mobility) in Victorian times as mental illness was not understood, 'Angel in the House' was the ideal Victorian housewife
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Themes
Secret love, posessiveness, desire, insanity, death
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