Porphyria's Lover

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Themes Love and Possession Power and Control Power relations between men and women
Generic Conventions Gothic Genre (pathetic fallisay and undercurrents of necrophilia) Thriller Genre Romance Genre (seduction)
Speaker Porphyria's Lover - who remains unnamed
Auditor Left ambiguous, possibly the reader?
Figurative language Metaphors of tying Pathetic Fallacy
Imagery The wind personified Bee simile of her eyes
Beginning Ultima Res Always raining but it set in to early tonight - somethings more wrong than ussual
Ending Justification and rationalization that he has done nothing wrong because God has not smited him
Climax The strangulation in line 47
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