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• on Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning, on April 13, 2005

  Notice that this is very similar to the song "stand inside your love" by the smashing pumpkins...
  It seems the image of strangling is apparent in both Stand Inside your Love and Porphyria’s Lover. In Porphyria’s Lover, the character/narrator uses the hair of his lover to strangle her. “ In one long yellow string I wound, Three times her little throat around and strangled her.” All this signifies, is that it’s a literal; image of murder and control. You can almost picture the woman being strangled. The man actually murders her in the poem. In the song “Stand Inside Your Love” by the Smashing Pumpkins, a similar image of strangling is created. He uses a figurative “strangulation” image. “I’ll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind”. He is saying, figuratively speaking of course, that he will wrap his “wire” meaning his love around her “heart”, which symbolizes her love. He wants to hold onto her love no matter what. He is being selfish and is not allowing anyone else to have a chance to love her. Both poems have the strong use of the imagery of strangulation, and it is evident that a strong emotion is being sent through such strong words.
  
  The image and sense of purity is also apparent in both writes. In Porphyria’s Lover, the image of purity appears a couple times. When he mentions her eyes, “Laughed the blue eyes without a stain.” the suggestion of her eyes notes that the narrator thinks that she has been purified after he has killed her, that she has been brought back to her "virginal state" Also, he mentions that “she is mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good” as soon as he kills her, signifying that no one else can love her, because she is forever his. In Standing Inside Your Love, he mentions how pure the woman really is. When he says “A pure soul and beautiful you”, he is explaining that she is pure, and untouched, and she can be his. The odd thing is that he mentions this before he kills her, which is contradictory to Porphyria’s Lover. Both of these works seem oddly similar with the common use of imagery.
  
  
  It seems that Billy Corgan may have been inspired by this write while he wrote this song. So many similarities.