How do Porphyrias Lover and Stop all the Clocks convey a feeling of love and loss?
… that ‘Porphyria worshipped’ him. Robert Browning suggests that the Lover thought of Porphyria being a possession rather than a person. The Lover imagines that because she ‘loved me’, she would die for him. Robert Browning conveys love to be a dangerous and powerful emotion. He expresses this by showing how feelings as deep as this would drive somebody to murder. In ‘Stop all the clocks’, W H Auden expresses love differently to the way Robert Browning does. ‘Stop all the clocks’ is a poem about a person who has lost a loved one. It shows the affection and adoration a man had for another man. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ the Lover does not care when his loved one dies. It is the total opposite in ‘Stop all the clocks’, in which he feels as if his life is over. W H Auden shows how much this man meant to him by …
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