Porphyria's Lover Comparison

Comparison “Crazy Courage” & ”Porphyria’s Lover” These two poems relate in seeing love in different ways. “Crazy Courage” is about a girl pushing her courage over her expectation. “Porphyria’s Lover” is about a boy who’s gay and gets driven into a girl’s heart. Through these poems, the comparison between the two will relate by different styles of love. “Crazy Courage” relates to a young standard of love which begins mostly through education circumstances. The young girl perceives to be in love with bisexual; because the boy who dresses up in boy and girl clothing makes her heart click. “And what it was, I think, was his perfect dignity, the offering of his living, red rose to the perceptive, to the blind, to the amused, to the impressed, to those who would kill him, and to those who would kill him, and to those who would love him” (579). She takes a risk by ignoring the religious standard of love. That for falling in love doesn’t go against standard love. The change in her sexuality formed by seeing on boy dressing in both gender clothing. “He came to my fiction class as a man (dressed in men’s clothes); the he came to my poetry class as a woman (dressed in women’s clothes; but he was
still a man under the clothes)” (578). So, no matter how they look, her heart will love them as if they treat her with grate respect. “Porphyria’s Lover” pushes love to go against different styles.
The love that’s expressed in this poem shows that it isn’t from opinions, but from instincts. As this man finds himself wanting her to be his. He will stop at nothing in making her all his. The man is crazy, and would even kill her to make her his. “A thing to do, and all her hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around, and strangled her” (743). He understands that she enjoyed the roughness with no pain. Which drives his obsession further to marrying Porphyria. “That all it scorned at once is fled, and I, its love, am gained instead” (743). The full roughness of his sexuality only finds the true woman that’s meant for him. In the poem, He’s the dominate and Porphyria is the
submissive. These two stories express different ways love can be imaged. Many love stories connect by the styles of love. Between “Crazy Courage” and “Porphyria’s Lover”, they aren’t connected through love but through instincts which leads into love. The poems are crazy in the way people gather themselves in their own sexualities. Expressing their feelings in a rough manner, or being bisexual. The dominates and bisexuality brings these two poems together as different ways love can be viewed.