Porphyrias Lover Flashcards
Quotes (23 cards)
Which quote?
Pathetic fallacy
Moody connotations
Setting: Dark, stormy night
“The sullen wind was soon awake”
Connotations: violent, aggressive, powerful.
Deliberately hurt, petty.
“It tore the elm tops down for spite”
Annoy
Personifying the “lake”
“did its worst to vex the lake”
Graceful, elegant, angelic, ghostly.
Contrast: violent weather, oblivious danger.
“When glided in Porphyria”
Intimate, seductive.
Detailed list of movements.
Hint at obssession.
Sinister.
“Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl”
Foreshadowing.
Improper for Victorian women.
“Let the damp hair fall,”
Repetition, foreshadowing.
Obsession.
Bright, beautiful, noticable.
“Yellow hair”
She wants him but something is holding her back.
“Struggling passion free”
Possessive,
Unwilling to leave her family.
“Give herself to me for ever”
Quote that shows her high class.
Another phrase for a fancy party.
“to-night’s gay feast”
Repetition of the opening weather.
“come through wind and rain”
God, not lover
“Porphyria worshipped me”
The turning point.
“I found a thing to do”
Revelation of what he actually did.
“In one long yellow string I wound, Three times her little throat around”
Calm, no emotion, matter-of-fact.
“And strangled her”
Repetition.
Convincing himself
“No pain felt she… she felt no pain”
He believes she is now happy.
Personification.
“Laughed the blue eyes without a stain”
Alliteration.
Delutional.
Metaphor for passion.
“Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss”
Emphasises lifelessness.
“Propped” and “droops”
List of adjectives.
Perfect, vulnerable, patronising?
Shows his madness.
“Smiling rosy little head”
Objectifying her.
Possessive.
Refering to Porphyria as “it”
Shows how long they have been sitting there.
Reveals the extent of his madness.
“We sit together now,”
What he had done couldn’t have been wrong.
Justifying what he did.
“And yet God has not said a word!”
