Love

Love

Porphyria's Lover
1. possessive relationship - 'happy and proud; at last I knew/Porphyria worshipped me'
  1. 'That moment she was mine, mine'
2. fragmented females - 'laughed the blue eyes' synecdoche
3. 'yellow hair'
My Last Duchess
1. controlling - 'notice Neptune, though, /Taming a sea-horse'
Love Among the Ruins
1. power of love 'Now,- the single little turret that remains'
2. 'eager eyes and yellow hair'
3. silencing power of passion 'we extinguish sight and speech'
  1. 'where she looks now, breathless, dumb/ Till I come'
4. 'Love is best'
5. Eleanor Cook - 'The closer he comes to his beloved the greater his vehemence grows, as if the city posed a direct threat'
6. Lee Erickson - 'It appears that Browning has bled the poem of passionate love and substituted a curiously obsessional rant'
Two in the Campagna'
1. Five line stanza - ABABA feels inconclusive
2. inability to unite 'floating weft'
  1. 'I would I could adopt your will/ See with your eyes'
  2. sing. pronouns 'I wonder do you feel today'
  3. A Leighton - 'conveys a sense of that necessary isolation of the individual soul which resists the fusing power of the deepest love'
3. idea of fate 'How is it under our control/ To love or not to love?'
4. passionate + hyperbolic - 'such life here.../such miracles..'
5. fleeting love - 'Then the good minute goes'
  1. 'where is the thread now?'
  2. 'Infinite passion, and the pain/ Of finite hearts that yearn'
  3. 'true key note is the pain of perpetual change'
Love in a Life/ Life in a Love
1. life is the pursuit of love 'room after room/ I hunt the house through'
  1. 'Spend my whole day in the quest'
  2. 'so the chase takes up one's life'
2. victims of chance 'she goes out as I/ enter'
3. lack of unity 'While I am I, and you are you'
A Woman's Last Word
Women and Roses

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