Porphyria's Lover And Annabel Lee

They say "Expect the unexpected". There exists a timeline that human beings follow. The very moment of birth, life is given. In the end, death acts as a turbulence upon life. Although death is expected, this becomes problematic when death occurs at any possible moment. The time of death remains a mystery. Precisely, how short is life? The very last breath of life is not known to humans. Death acts as a limit that prevents humans from experiencing the essence of life. "Annabel Lee", "On My First Son", and "Porphyria's lover" exemplifies that throughout the course of life, death functions as an evil contradiction; it is something to be expected yet it is a phenomenon not to be expected. Lovers are taken away by death, leaving the ones who suffer loss, grieving. When a death of a lover occurs, it evokes longing for someone that cannot be brought back to life. It causes one to mourn over something that cannot be controlled; therefore death has the upper hand in all situations. The poem, "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe states, "Of my darling -my darling -my life and my bride, / In the sepulcher there
It is difficult to be freely live life without worrying about the cost of death. An innocent life must be sacrificed so that death can benefit. It's as if death feels this satisfaction when it defeats life. For example, in the poem, "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning states that "Murmuring how she loved me... / And strangled her. No pain felt she; / I am quite sure she felt no pain" (Browning, lines 21 and 41-42). Porphyria's expresses her life through the use of love. She only expected love in return; however, death replaced love. Porphyria's lover represents the human form of death, who strangles her to the point where she did not feel any more pain. Porphyria died for what she believed in. Unfortunately, love was exchanged with her death. This depicts a paradigm of an unequal