Porphyria's Lover quick MITS analysis

By King Meera -
Meaning:
A lover preserves a moment in time with his beloved by strangling her

Intention:
To shock the "numbed" Victorian reader into questioning:
1. contemporary preoccupation with illicit sex out of wedlock and
2. which is worse, violence or sex

Tone:
Measured madness - ababb rhyme scheme - "the intensity and asymmetry of the pattern suggests the madness concealed within the speaker’s reasoned self-presentation"

Style:
Dark Romanticism. Gothic even
http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html

Death table analysis:
Framework:
Victorian prudishness
Approach:
Stylistic (content) analysis
Lexical:
(words) The speaker of the poem is articulate and unapologetic. He insists, "No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain." - in plain language, mimicking natural speech, but as with his other dramatic monologues as psychological portraits, each metaphor requires close attention, as it portrays the subtleties in the dynamics between the characters, for instance: "As a shut bud that holds a bee, /I warily oped her lids: again /Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. ", conveys the speaker's apprehension and trepidation and "Porphyria’s love: she guessed not how /Her darling one wish would be heard." his self-aware and selfish intent.
Syntactic:
(tone) The speaker's monologue begins after he has murdered his lover. It is reflective, artistically descriptive at places, but clearly written in retrospect: "And thus we sit together now, /And all night long we have not stirred, /And yet God has not said a word!"
Semantic:
(meaning) refer to the line-by-line analysis you did in class
Notional:
(issue) 
Discourse:
(contemporary relevance)
Genre:
(contemporary relevance)

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