The Gate of Memory

This painting was depicted by Dante Gabriel Rosetti in the painting we see a young woman standing besides a building in an alleyway watching others parade around. However the painting can be translated to those of a prositiute standing at an archway watching those parade around of innocence and morals and recognizes helself as once a person with the same innocence as those who are dancing. I choose this painting to depict the innocence of Prophyria during the poem writing by Browning. Even though Prophyria was suggested to be a prositute in the poem, I believe the narrator knew Prophyria should disperse from the negative entity of prositution. As I think he believed he releived Prophyria of the sins and choose to resuscitate her innocence.

 

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