Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
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Trials and hearings take place frequently in our society today. In
a trial, it is the job of two lawyers to persuade a jury to see a situation
a certain way, regardless if it is the right way, the truthful way, or if
it is even the way they themselves see it. It is then the jury's
obligation, af ....
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.... the reader is the jury, the
speaker of the poem is the lawyer, and, thinking more abstractly, the
author, Robert Browning in this case, represents the case as a whole. The
decision the jury must make between what is actually right and what the
lawyers imply to be right is the same one the reader of a dramatic
monologue must make. Browning's Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of poems
in which many are written in dramatic monologue. "Porphyria's Lover" is a
poem from Dramatic Lyrics critics of ....
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