The lyrics to this are amazing imo. It's not really a thing you can relate to, but it's so brilliantly done - like late victorian gothic poetry, and obviously the name is refrencing 'Porpyria's Lover' By Robert Browning. I'm not sure if it's trying to metaphor to anything but its most plain outline is that it's someone's total despair in someone they love dying, and how they would do and try to do anything to take that person back, but obviously they can't. Very different from the original poem Porpyria's Lover though, that's someone killing someone that they love so they can never leave them..
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.
The lyrics to this are amazing imo. It's not really a thing you can relate to, but it's so brilliantly done - like late victorian gothic poetry, and obviously the name is refrencing 'Porpyria's Lover' By Robert Browning. I'm not sure if it's trying to metaphor to anything but its most plain outline is that it's someone's total despair in someone they love dying, and how they would do and try to do anything to take that person back, but obviously they can't. Very different from the original poem Porpyria's Lover though, that's someone killing someone that they love so they can never leave them..
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.