help on the poem Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning?

Browning's 'dramatic monologues' (a form he popularised in Victorian England) take you inside the mind of a person who is different from you. Some of them are figures from history, others would be strange and uncouth characters in any period. The idea of the poems is to show you how someone else might think, to get you inside a head which is not your own.

In Porphyria's Lover a speaker (who is never named) explains why he has just murdered the woman he loves. He tells you very little about their historical period, or social background: he tells you about why he has murdered Porphyria, and how he feels about it now (basically, he feels good - he believes he has done the right thing under the circumstances).

We do not know for sure even that the girl's name was Porphyria (it seems a strange name, perhaps the murderer has made it up). It is even possible that the speaker of the poem is not a man.

The poem explains why you might murder someone you love.

If you have never murdered anyone you loved, the poem has something to teach you.

Porphyria is a disease.. Look it up...I think it has something to do with the meaning.