Movement Background: Its difficult to trace the start of the romanticism movement, but the beginning can be traced to many events in time. Like the folklore in the mid to late eighteenth century with the work of the brother Grimm, neoclassicism and the Augustan poets in England. Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influences was felt across the continents and every artistic discipline into the mid nineteenth century. Romanticism was able to cultivate; individualism; dealism, physical and emotional passion. As well as to embrace freedom and revolution in the arts. The Romantic era produced many stereotypes of poets and poetry that still exists today. Example Edgar Allen Poe.
Poetry Analysis: Porphyria's Lover focuses on a woman who have came in from a long night and wanting to be with her husband. The speaker realizes how much she really loves him. The poem mentions "She put my arm about her waist, And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced." She loves him but goes out at night to do her own thing. Also they loved each other so much that he went crazy. At the end he kills her with her own hair. He wanted to be free of love and he was tired of her doing her own think but he still loved. So at the end of the night he cuddles with her corpse.
Literary Devices: The poem Porphyria's Lover have many literary devices. There are two I would like to get into which are foreshadowing and diction. The author uses foreshadowing when he states, "A sudden thought of one so pale." The author uses foreshadowing to predict what is about to come in the future and the thought of one so pale is when she is dead. Then author uses diction to show how hard she attempted to not let her pride in the way. When the author states, "Too weak for all her heart's endeavour, to set its struggling passion free from pride, and vainer ties dissever." He uses endeavour to illustrate how hard she tried to set its struggling passion without letting her pride in the way.