Theme- Porphyria's Lover

This is a poem written by Robert Browning. Porphyria's Lover was written in 1836. When first reading this poem a reader would get the idea that this poem would be about love, however in reality this poem is about murder. The writer tells us about how he strangles her with her own hair. (A thing to do, and all her hair, In one long yellow string I wound. Three times her little throat around. And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. (38-42). This writer is desperate to be loved, by strangling her he thinks she will be with him forever. The writer tends to have delusional thoughts on how love really should be. This writer was not carrying out her wishes, yet he was carrying out his own. This man is very entitled, this man does not care about human life much less about anyone but himself. He wants to be loved and in his sick mind he feels gratification by what he has done.