“The rain set early into night”
“It tore the elm tops down in spite”
“She shut the cold out and the storm”
“Blazed up and all the cottage warm”
“Murmuring how she loved me”
The first thing that there is that is clear to see is that he the narrator is greatly in love with porphyria and is at the beginning most probably constructing different circumstances that may be the cause for her being late one that I believe the narrator of the story is constructing in his mind and is represented in his volatile language is that he is very anxious and almost distressed about the possibility that she may be with a different man and the narrator describes this in his quotes as metaphors such as “it torn the elm tops down in spite”.This metaphor being that he may be knocking things off of shelves and throwing things around the cottage as a way of reliving the stress he is creating as he is fantasizing about where is true love is another quote that I believe to be a hidden metaphor for how he really feels is “and tried its best to vex the lake”.This meaning that as she remains unseen he increasingly becomes angered and stressed over not knowing where his one and only love could be.
From these quotations I can see that there are probably two people involved in this poem. One, the man, is inside of the cold dark cottage and the other, the woman called Porphyria, is outside in the cold and storm. When Porphyria enters the cottage she immediately changes the atmosphere and the cottage it is no longer a dark cold place but is instead a warm one as seen in this extract “Blazed up and all the cottage warm” this is a form of pathetic fallacy as when she enters the cottage the whole setting changes and becomes calm and peaceful .This quote shows that she makes the cottage and also possibly the man feel the same way. I also believe that the two characters love each other dearly, as said in this quote “Murmuring how she loved me”. There is a very calm atmosphere when the two characters interact given that there is a very violent storm happening outside so violent it is destroying objects “It tore the elm tops down in spite”.yet again this is a sigh of pathetic fallacy .
one conspiracy almost that I believe to be a possibility is that perhaps the reason the narrator killed porphyria was as he did not want her to 1 go away again and leave him in darkness and 2 as he did not want to feel betrayed and cheated by her again.
November 30, 2016 at 8:57 am
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