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I am going to compare two nineteenth century poems and see their contrasts and their similarities:

'Porphyria's Lover' is all about love, death and jealousy.

It starts with descriptions about the weather, laying out the settings and mood of the night.

What happens, is that the narrator, is in love with a lady called Porphyria, and wants to be with her forever, except that she has wealthy friends which she would rather spend her time with and him.

He jets jealous by this, but has to do something about it, so the only option he chooses to think of, is to kill her.

He chooses the exact right time to do it aswell. Just when Porphyria looks into his eyes, shows her love for him through her facial expressions, or body language, he kills her but strangling her. Then that last moment when she felt that way about him, that moment would last forever, and would never go away, well that's what he thought at least, and he knew that she could never changer her mind about she felt towards him again, or let her love she had for him, disappear. For some reason he felt good about this, because he must have been thinking 'if I can not have her, then no one will'.

'The Sisters' is also, about love, death and J

The ways in which other people had rejected the two narrators is shown, in 'Porphyria's Lover' as it is saying that Porphyria's heart is too weak to break free from the wealthy friends and be with the lover forever, this is shown in the quotation:

"I wearily oped her lids; again laughed the blue eyes without a stain."

The weather in 'The Sisters' is mentioned in every three lines on each verse or paragraph.

But all together, I thought 'Porphyria's Lover' was the best.

And laid him at his mother's feet, this probably means that she put in a graveyard where his mother rested too.

Some common words found in the essay are:
Thro'-meaning Comely-meaning, Sister Earl, Dead Bodies, Earl Earl, , Porphyria Money, O'er-meaning Vainer, 'porphyria's lover', 'the sisters', Jealousy Porphyria, wealthy friends, Sisters' Earl, sister earl, sister loved, sister close earl, vainer ties, jealous wealthy, money left, roaring turret tree', free wealthy, break free wealthy, wind rain, killed sister close, jealous wealthy friends,

Approximate Word count = 2295
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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