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"" is a poem by Robert Browning. Browning wrote the poem about one hundred years ago with the intention for it to be a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a poem uttered by one speaker, not the poet, but by a character being auto biographical at a critical ....

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.... happily return home to her husband, and leave her Lover alone. I think that although she does love her Lover she is too weak to give up this other man. I feel that Porphyria is definitely in love with him, but seems to be too weak to act seriously on her feelings. Porphyria traveled at night in a storm to meet her Lover which shows that she is certainly interested and devoted to him. I also think they are having an affair because the poem is called "Porphyria's Lover". It would explain why the relationship was so clandestine. Her Lover was not sure if Porphyria truly loved him. When he discovered that she did he killed her so they would always ....