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Porphyria's Lover "Her darling one wish would be heard" In Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover" we are presented with the picture of a man who loves a woman so much that he kills her so that she can never leave him. In this essay I am going to explore the imagery and symbolism used by Robert Browning to explain the story to the readers and the impact it left on me. The poem is told by Porphyria's lover, which makes it a dramatic monologue poem. This has a big effect on the poem as we are only told her lover's opinions, we never find out what Porphyia thought. Porphyria's lover could also miss out some things and be biased. At the beginning of the poem, Porphyria's lover is waiting for her to arrive home from the party she was at. Robert Browning uses transferred epithet to show how he is feeling. He writes "sullen wind" and "cheerless grate." It is not really the wind that is sullen or the grate that is cheerless it is really Porphyria's lover. He is feeling this way because Porphyria is out enjoying herself while he is left in. Using this technique Robert Browning captures my attention more and I think it was a very clever technique to use. When Porphyria arrives home he writes, "When glided in