Porphyria's Lover
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Porphyria's Lover is an 1834 poem by the English poet Robert Browning.
It is his first dramatic monologue. It is told by a madman in the process of murdering his lover by strangling her with her own hair, which he does so that she can be his forever and will be in an eternal state of love.
External links
- full text (http://www.bartleby.com/101/720.html)
- comic adaptation (http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/porphyria/porphyria.html) by Scott McCloud