"Porphyria's Lover"

In the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning, the way that I took the theme was that his love is dying of a tragic death, and in order to save her from the pain, he strangles her to death to give her a quick death. This idea presents itself in many poems throughout poetic history, the idea that in order to spare someone from pain, death is a form of salvation or a way to move on to a beter life. In the poem, the theme depicts the idea that a storm is coming in and it makes one wonder af first whether Porphyria is a storm that is in the sky, but then it states that Porphyria has arrived back and then it goes on to desrcibe that she is weak. With the theme set up at this point to let us know that she is week, it allows the opportunity to make the introduction of a possiblity for someone to come along and "save" the "danzel in distress", so to say. The idea that he is forced to wrap her own blonde hair around her kneck to bring her to her fate of death is odd because the poem brings up her hair prior to this event which causes the reader to beleive that he had been planning the killing of her. At this time, the theme is set up because it shows that he follows through to "save" her from her pain.