English lit- love poems

And yet god has not said a word!-PL

.Up to reader to decide who’s in the wrong, the upper class adulteress or insane lover

. His justification for his actions

“Porphyria worshiped me”-PL

Wants to posses porphyria as he likes the feeling of being worshiped

Murmuring how she loved me-PL

He feels she is not as committed to him as he is to her

And give herself to me forever-PL

He has feelings of emasculation and inadequacy

“In silence and tears…with silence and tears”-WWTP

Cyclical structure

“Share in it’s shame”-WWTP

Feels like he’s sharing in her shame→sibilance: links to secrecy

“A knell to mind ear”-WWTP

Hearing her name reminds him of thier relationship. Connotes funeral and death

“Pale”…”cold”-WWTP

Semantic feild of death, lexical pattern of death

“Heaven” “divine”-LPH

Religious imagery: his love is holy, Shelly is atheist→could be criticising religion

“The fountains mingle”-LPH

Draws parallels between nature and his own desires

“Nothing in the world is single”-LPH

the argument he is trying to communicate

“Law divine”-LPH

God wants this→ law suggests it’s wrong to go against it