... cold, raining and there is a storm raging outside a small cottage. Words like 'sullen', 'spite' and 'vex' shows the lover is bad tempered. Porphyria walks in the cottage and immediately brings warmth. Her lover describes her bringing warmth and cheerfulness metaphorically on his home and his spirit. 'She shut the cold out and the storm And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm.' Porphyria shows tenderness and intensity when she starts to seduce her lover 'She put my arm about her waist And made her smooth white shoulder bare' Women in Victorian times were expected to be submissive but Porphyria makes the first move and seduces her lover. 'That moment she was mine, mine fair' Porphyria's lover is emphasising that at this moment in time Porphyria is his. The repetition emphasis the possessiveness. Porphyria might have another lover and is too weak to break from him. From ...

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