rable and were supposed to address all aspects of their life in a very noble way. All this evidently shows that a visionary imagination is so powerful that Madeline cannot control it and Porphyro uses it to his advantage. It sure fooled Madeline into believing that she was still dreaming, and dreaming enough to not stop herself from running away this Porphyro in the end. However at the end of the poem Porphyro never really wants Madeline to wake up. As Jack Stillinger said “Madeline never completely awakens from her fanciful dream; for she believes Porphyro when he tells her that the storm is ‘an elfin-storm from faery land’ (343)” (P. 88-89) Prophyro would much rather Madeline live in a dream state then allow her to wake, to find out what he has done to get her to be his bride.Thoughout the poem Porphyro tries to authenticate her dreaming experience however in the process he totally violates her dreaming experience and he knows exactly what he is doing. Angela whom he uses to get into her bedroom chamber also seemed to succumb to the mystical power of the night. This cannot happened because she doesn’t believe in the mystical powers of the night. However what does affect her is that Madeline believes in the night and is power and just that belief in that power has influenced someone that doesn’t believe in the night, Angela. It doesn’t help that the people who were supposed to watch out for her and protect her didn’t do their job and to me they seem senile, Angela especially. When Angela sees that Porphyro is there and has asked her to tell him where Madeline is, she promptly replies, “Get Hence! Get Hence! … Flit like a ghost away.”(100-105) She basically tell him to leave right now because it is not right that he is there and he could get into big trouble if he is there. Porphyro continues to stay there and talk to Angela. She eventually tells Porphyro tha...
