PL + FB plan

P1

SIMILARITY

speakers are so consumed → preserving their beloved in their distorted vision that they objectify them, reducing them to something less than human.

Porphyria's lover:

• deconstructed and fragmented into her physical features, portraying her as an object of lust, sexual longing and obsession

• Evidence: "Her smooth white shoulder bare" "yellow hair displaced"

The Farmer's bride:

• transforms into fear as the bride is subjected to objectification (treated as an object) due to his obsession to keep her as his own

• Evidence: "chose a maid"
  

DIFFERENCE

Porphyria's Lover

uses death to immortalise their obsessive objectification, the farmer resorts to an obsessive longing by not letting her physically escape

The Farmer's bride:

• desire to maintain control and exploit her completely, ensuring she remains under his authority with no autonomy and is unable to escape

• Evidence: "She runned away" "We caught her"

P2:

SIMILAR

both are dramatic monologues - show how their obsession depersonalised their beloved as the reader only sees them through their perverted minds

Porphyria's Lover:

her portrayal becomes immortalised through his perception and control, further emphasising her lack of autonomy (freedom) and agency in the poem

Farmer's bride:

unfiltered access to his dehumanisation of his wife. Although she remains alive, she appears lifeless

Different:

use different rhyme schemes to illustrate their obsession

Farmer's bride:

irregular rhyme with occasional rhyming couplets to illustrate the tumultuous (volatile) marriage, where there are hints of genuine affection but mostly just pure control and subjugation

Porphyria's lover:

unevenly weighted, with an ABABB, CDCDD, EFEFF etc which makes the speaker sound delirious and disjointed - mirrors his calculated + disturbing nature