English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1314 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Porphyria's Lover"
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The idea
In "Porphyria's Lover," first published in eighteen thirty-six and later grouped as one of the "Madhouse Cells," a man strangles his lover with her own hair to keep the moment she is his, then sits calmly beside her body. The anchor notes his anger at her social superiority.
In practice
A calm voice, a murder.
Where people slip
The calm narration is the horror.
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