ana in the Moated Grange, Mariana lives a sort of half-life waiting for her lover. She lives in a trance, looking always into her inner world and never upon the sweet heaven. Personification of the sheds, The broken sheds lookd sad and strange, gives the poem a background of melancholia. Even the environment is weeping. The lines I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead! are repeated throughout the poem from the time where the sun is shining to when the moon appears. In fact she cries all day long: Her tears fell with the dews at even; /Her tears fell ere the dews had dried Her grief and depression parallels the natural landscape. A sluice with blackend waters slept,/And oer it manyThe clusterd marish-mosses crept, is an example of how Tennysons uses imagery to draw a parallel between the inner and outer worlds. The shrill winds, the curtain moving to and fro and the shadows falling on her bed all indicate the loneliness that Mariana feels (Document 1). Mariana lives in her own world, still believing that her lover will come, believing that Old faces glimmerd thro the doors, and confounded by the slow clock ticking, and the sound/Which to the wooing wind aloof/The poplar made.As evident in these three poems, Tithonus, Lady of Shallot and Mariana in the Moated Grange, Tennyson often portrays the world as a sad place. Many times, like in Tithonus and Lady of Shallot, there is a conflict between wishes and desires. Also, Tennyson often uses the outer environment to heighten the emotions experienced by the characters. In short, Tennyson is able to convey his themes of half-life and death-in-life through the use of imagery, symbolism and figures of speech....
