Happy And Proud At Last I Knew Porphyria Worshiped Me Analysis

Firstly, the narrator is shown to want to murder porphyria. He says “happy and proud; at last I knew porphyria worshiped me”. This shows that he has been waiting for porphyria to show signs of love for some time and that he has been unsure whether she loves him or not. The writer debates whether what to do with her once she has shown her signs of true love and he soon concludes that murdering her is the right way to go. This is called a paradox, as he loves her but also wants to kill her so he can preserve the perfect memory of when she ‘worshipped’ him. This also reflects the narrator’s attitudes toward women, he presents porphyria a useful object by the way she does all the housework and makes his cottage cosy. She also does not have a voice of her own is this poem. The narrator says “she shut the cold out and the storm and kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up” this shows that she is being shown as being a maid and that she is almost being possessed by the narrator.
At this point he kills her because he wants the moment to stay at that point. Before he murders her, him and her were busy cuddling and making love, this is when he was certain that she loved him. Whilst they were making love, he then proceeds to wrap her hair around her neck “in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around” and strangles her. It seems as if they were very making love vigorously and therefore he claims that she felt nothing on the line “I am quite sure she felt no