I am going to compare two nineteenth century poems and see their contrasts and their similarities:
'Porphyria's Lover' is all about love, death and jealousy.
It starts with descriptions about the weather, laying out the settings and mood of the night.
What happens, is that the narrator, is in love with a lady called Porphyria, and wants to be with her forever, except that she has wealthy friends which she would rather spend her time with and him.
He jets jealous by this, but has to do something about it, so the only option he chooses to think of, is to kill her.
He chooses the exact right time to do it aswell. Just when Porphyria looks into his eyes, shows her love for him through her facial expressions, or body language, he kills her but strangling her. Then that last moment when she felt that way about him, that moment would last forever, and would never go away, well that's what he thought at least, and he knew that she could never changer her mind about she felt towards him again, or let her love she had for him, disappear. For some reason he felt good about this, because he must have been thinking 'if I can not have her, then no one will'.
'The Sisters' is also, about love, death and Jealousy, but it mainly focuses on the jealousy part, as there were two sisters from one family.
One of them was the prettiest sister, and the other well she was jealous of her because they both loved the Earl but the Earl chose the prettiest sister to be with, which caused the un-pretty one to feel hurt and covetous, she was also jelous of the wealth that her sister had through being the Earl.
So she wanted to get revenge towards her sister, as she had not had any of the kind of happiness that her sister did with the man that she loved.
So she kills her sister, to get closer the Earl and when he was mourning for the death of the sister, she knew that she could have him, although he wouldn&a...