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Title: Mariana, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Description: Aimed at A Level students, an analysis of the structure, form and language of Mariana, including critical analysis and links to other Tennyson poetry.
Description: Aimed at A Level students, an analysis of the structure, form and language of Mariana, including critical analysis and links to other Tennyson poetry.
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“Mariana” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
FORM:
• Third person narrative, narrator is
disconnected from Mariana,
emphasising her isolation
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• 7 twelve-‐line stanzas, each describing
her state of mind with increasing
sadness
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• Stasis of the rhyme scheme emphasises
the constant of Mariana
...
• Refrain is bewitching, incantatory
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• Final refrain is monosyllabic, makes it
seem final, decisive, it’s more anguished
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“Glanced
athwart the glooming flats” shows her psychology again with monotonous, flat land
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• Personification – “Cold winds woke the grey-‐eyed morn”, monochrome, bleak, shows how
broken and tired she is
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Ironic as water can sleep but M can’t
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• Time (theme) – time moves on in the poem, which contrasts to M remaining constant
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“The ancient thatch”
gives a timeless feel
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Stanza
6, repetition of ‘old’ suggests she is stuck in the past, anaphora
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More assonance when she describes life as “aweary” and “dreary”
...
“Unlifted was the clinking latch” nothing
is happening, no movement from her
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“She only said”, she does nothing but wait and speak
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• Entrapment (theme) – “The blue fly sung in the pane” enclosure image
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Epigraph, she is surrounded by the moat
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• Poplar tree (symbol) – represents Angelo, tree is only break in landscape, “no other tree did
mark//the level waste”
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Could represent broken promise according to Greek mythology
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Heightened awareness as she hopes to hear Angelo
Title: Mariana, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Description: Aimed at A Level students, an analysis of the structure, form and language of Mariana, including critical analysis and links to other Tennyson poetry.
Description: Aimed at A Level students, an analysis of the structure, form and language of Mariana, including critical analysis and links to other Tennyson poetry.