Porphyrias lover

Every person has experienced some kind of love through the duration of their lives. Two people loving one another should be a blissful jury through life. Yet, sometimes love has tragic results instead of being joyful. People can become obsessed with the ones that they desire. "Porphyria`s Lover" by Robert Browning is an example of the struggling love that two people have for one another. It becomes obsessive love and then ends in fatal …

…to him. She shows her passion for her lover by putting his arm around her waist and making him put his cheek on her exposed pale shoulder. The speaker also loves Porphyria, she seems to be important to him; a little too important. He needs to preserve the moment that he realizes she cares about him, and eternalize their love. Sometimes, tragically, love ends in death. So they sit, Porphyria and her lover, together forever.