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1
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  • Setting a dark and stormy night

- Common gothic device

A

“The rain set early in to-night”

2
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  • First sign of pathetic fallacy

- Represents narrators emotions

A

“Sullen wind was soon awake”

3
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  • Personification

- Annoy

A

“Did it’s worst to vex the lake”

4
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  • The narrator is waiting around for Porphyria getting increasingly more annoyed and angry
  • Porphyria has the power to break his heart
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“Heart fit to break”

5
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  • First mention of Porphyria
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“Glided in Porphyria”

6
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  • It’s as if Porphyria banishes all bad and cold emotions from the house with her entrance
A

“ She shut the cold out and the storm”

7
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  • Fire
  • Passion
  • Contrasts with the cold dark themes that introduced the poem
A

“Blaze up”

8
Q
  • This gives an indication to Porphyrias innocence

- First signs of Porphyria taking charge and acting like a seductress

A

“ Smooth white shoulder bare”

9
Q
  • Foreshadows future violence in the poem

- Repitition

A

“Yellow hair”

10
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  • It’s as if he isn’t bothered
  • Hesitant
  • Flirtatious
A

“Murmuring how she loved me”

11
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  • Metaphor- she wants him but something is holding her back
A

“Struggling passion free”

12
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  • Social class
A

“To-nights gay feast”

13
Q
  • Repetition of opening weather
A

“Come through wind and rain”

14
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  • God, not lover
A

“Porphyria worshipped me”

15
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  • First signs of the narrator showing love towards Porphyria
A

“Made my heart swell”

16
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  • Deciding how to keep her forever
  • Cold
  • Methodical
A

“While I debated what to do”

17
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  • Vulnerable
  • Beautiful
  • Innocence
A

“Perfectly pure and good”

18
Q
  • Turning point

- He has made his decision

A

“ A thing to do”

19
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  • Shocking

- Very descriptive

A

“In one long yellow string I wound, three times her little throat around”

20
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  • Calm
  • No emotion
  • Matter of fact
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“And strangled her”

21
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  • Shows his madness

- He believes she’s is happy now

A

“Laughed the blue eyes without a stain”

22
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  • Delusional
  • Morbid
  • Lifeless
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“Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss”

23
Q
  • She is being named as an object
  • Perfect
  • Vulnerable
  • His madness
A

“The smiling rosy little head”

24
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  • Justifying himself

- Madness

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“And yet God has not said a word”