greykit.poetry — #gothic

• 1845 [edgar-allan-poe] The City in the Sea
  Poems (1849)

  Death has reared himself a throne in a strange city far down within the dim West, where no heaven-light reaches and no wind disturbs the melancholy waters — until Hell itself shall rise to do that sunken city reverence.

  #gothic#death#sea#1840s
• 1845 [edgar-allan-poe] The Raven
  The Raven and Other Poems

  A grieving man is visited at midnight by a raven who answers every question with the one word "Nevermore," driving him to the edge of madness over his lost Lenore.

  #gothic#narrative#loss#grief#1840s
• 1836 [robert-browning] Porphyria's Lover
  Dramatic Lyrics

  A lover tells how Porphyria came in from the storm, laid her hair on his cheek and whispered she loved him — and he strangled her with it, to hold that perfect moment forever; all night they sat, and yet God has not said a word.

  #dramatic-monologue#psychology#gothic#1830s