"Porphyria's Lover"

This poem is about a young women who goes home to her lover. What she doesn't know, is that her lover is going to kill her. While the killer (also the women's lover in the poem) is talking about his girlfriend coming home, he makes it sound so sweet and innocent. This poem completely shocked me, I didn't think that he was going to kill her in the end. Toward the end of the poem you can tell that the lover/killer is a little psycho. He starts to sound controlling, a little threatened (because she was out), and has some insecurities. Another thing that I would like to point out is that his character makes it sound like if he cant have her than no one can, but he already does have her and that's the weird psycho part.