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The Demented Mind of Porphyria’s Lover Audience: Person’s interested in learning more about Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover.” Purpose: To Educate. Proposal: I will tell you my interpretation of Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover.” Tone: Objective Constraints: The poem is from the nineteenth century which brings a whole new aspect to some of the customs in dating and life. The Demented Mind of Porphyria’s Lover Is it truly love if you would kill your lover so you can be together forever? Sounds like dementia, does it not? In Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” the speaker of the poem kills his lover. He does this because he fears she will go back to her family and leave him. He believes that if he kills her they will be together happily ever after. From the beginning of the poem there is a feeling that something is wrong, a rainy windy night when trees are getting blown down. Then Porphyria comes home to her lover and, in his eyes “She shut the cold out and the storm” (7). The speaker of this poem views Porphyria as somebody who ca