Robert Browning's - Porphyria's Lover - Browning's dramatic monologue successfully captures the essence of a damaged and obsessive personality. Do you agree?

Browning's dramatic monologue does effectively capture the essence of a damaged personality through the various techniques that the monologue contains. For instance the personification in the lines "The sullen wind soon awake... And did its worse to vex the lake", reflects the persona's emotions and gives what he is about to do intention which is shown through the example of the wind blowing the tree down with no intention. This also sets an aggressive setting …

…is still describing her as being alive in his eyes. In conclusion this monologue shows how Browning's monologue "Porphyria's Lover" may be described as crazy and obsessive and it shows how obscure Robert Browning's ideas were. The techniques all mentioned about above emphasise this sense of insanity and obsessiveness and his idea which also relate to Shakespeare's "Othello" which is about another troubled man killing his lover which is the subject matter of this poem.