Found Drown

This painting is by George Frederic Watts RA of a woman beneath the shores of the Waterloo Bridge in London. During the Victorian Era, there were women who portrayed the narrative of desire, illegitimacy, and religion.  These women were known as "fallen women". Watts was inspired by the poem " The Bridge of Sighs" which describes the life of a young woman who is destroyed by love, who becomes pregnant and homeless and eventually commits suicide. This art takes on the display of the image of a "fallen woman" which shows the complexity of ethics, virtues, and pity. I chose this image because of the ethics and pity shown by the narrator in Porphyria's Lover, in the poem Porphyria is a "fallen woman". Throughout the poem, we get the understanding that Porphyria is not married to the narrator, but they are in an entanglement. 

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