The start of Lord Tennyson's biography is quite interesting to see that he was doubted his talent, and soon later became a top-selling well-known writer. His parents provided great affection and also they had a love of poetry. As a child he started to discover poetry and wrote his own nature poems. He had a solid background of rounded education..I noticed many connections to mythical stories in his writings.
Throughout the poem, Mariana, he uses dark, melancholic descriptions like "blackest moss", "rusted nails", thickest dark", and "night is dreary" (587). This poem kinda gave me the chills with all the description of the setting. He repeats "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead" makes a big impact on her sorrow throughout the poem(587). She awaits the coming of her lover, yet her never comes. You can tell she is isolated and she just desires for him to return. It seems as if she is starting to dream of the day he comes home; "all day within the dreamy house, the doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd... Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors, old footsteps trod the upper floors, old voices called her from without. (588). This dispressed woman is lost of all hopes and dreams. She has nothing to look forward to, yet keeps awaiting for the day that will never come.
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Linh,
Some good remarks on Tennyson's "Mariana," with a few good quotations. You provide little close analysis of the passages, though, so they seem a bit like padding rather than an integral part of your interpretation.
I really liked this poem, and I liked how you referenced all the dark imagery in relation to her sorrow in waiting for her lover to return. Especially as her lover never does return, and as the poem progresses and it becomes obvious that he will not return, the imagery and the storm grows stronger and more fierce.
The effect of the descriptions cause the reader to enter a darker world. I felt a slight chill just like you did actually. Its the somberness I think...asking for death instead of moving forward is scary
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