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The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and 'Stop All The Clocks' by W.H Auden.
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... Holly Applin 11EN4 A Comparison of Two Poems About Love. The two poems I have chosen on the theme of love are 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and 'Stop All The Clocks' by W.H Auden. 'Porphyria's Lover', a dramatic monologue was written as a piece of entertainment in Victorian times, it would have been acted out to an audience. The narrative of this poem is that Porphyria was seeing someone below her own social class and no one knew about their relationship. She left the party early to go and see him as shown in the lines "When glided in Porphyria ; strait she shut the cold out and the storm" even they both knew that they could never be together forever. 'Stop All The Clocks' is about the death of a much loved partner , The speaker wants all the ordinary thing in his life to stop happening and he also














