Tennyson Close Analysis

Tennyson was published in 1830 and is the text I have chosen to do closely analyze. The subject matter of the poem was taken from one of Shakespearean p put downs calld placard for Mea trustworthy, and the line Marina in the mooted grange, gave Tennyson the inspiration to write of a young woman postponement for her lover. The two texts administer a common theme of desertion, as in Shakespearean play the young woman is as easy as diligently awaiting the expire of her lover Angelo after his desertion upon discovering her loss of dowry.Similarly to Shakespearean text, Marianne pretermits action or whatever narrative movement, the entire poem serving as an extended depiction of the melancholy isolation a young woman experiences whilst pining for her vacant lover. The phraseology, meter, micturateat and tone of the poem contribute to the inherent themes of isolation, remainder and decay, which I will closely examine in this close reading exercise. Unlike some of Tennyson dif ferent works such as Ulysses, Marianne doesnt have a dramatic monologue although it does feature a refrain.This method isolates Marina from us, and the poem being written in a third person lyrical narrative makes the title guru unable to linguistically control her own poem. The refrain is the only part within the poem in which Marina is able to speak out directly to the reader as well as the only form of dialogue in the first stanza, lines 9-12 My life is dreary/He cometh not she said/She said, l am areaway, areaway, I would that I were dead Her desperation is evident to the reader, and she said being written in past tense is large since we are left wondering of her fate as a result of her misery. The refrain undergoes minor changes throughout the poem, giving a small fragment of pope to both the reader and Marina who is stuck in a matte cycle of despair. In the minute, third and fourth stanza she alternates between day, night and light, in the final 9-12 lines of the stanza, em phasizes that nothing sincerely changes since her feelings of being areaway continue regardless of the time of day.In the final stanza, in the 9-12th lines, the refrain changes dramatically from the continuous and abiding refrain the reader had become accustomed to. Marina now Weeps instead of says and asks God to end her misery, thus the plea is no longer a wish but a prayer and an appeal, signifying the end to all hope. She is now sure that he will never return and her recognition of this show that she accepts it. The usage of the pronoun he in the refrain is interesting. We never construe his name or of his existence therefore his presence in the poem is very ambiguous.It could be that Marina is unspoiled waiting for a lover who has deserted her, or that he could be symbolic of a male dominating society that doesnt help her. The refrain shapes majority of the poem as it allows the reader to understand Marinas feelings, whereas the language and the climb only serve as a met aphor for her internal anguish and isolation. Although the poem is static, meaning it involves no action, the pathetic fallacy and personification of the setting is a reflection of Marinas mental decay as well as the world that she inhibits.In the first stanza, from lines 1 to 7, Marinas surroundings are described as blackest, rusted, broken, Weeded and worn, and lonely. Everything that is man-make is in a state of decay, symbolic for Marinas personal deteriorating and dissatisfaction of men. The iambic tetrameter, which sets the rhythmic, repetitive tone of the poem, is constantly interrupted by the refrain at he end of each stanza, symbolic to how Marianne can never feel at ease and is always in a state of psychological unrest.The three four-line rhyme units pattern of ABA CDC shout entrap the reader, since the E and F essentially remain the same in each stanza, which parallels with Marinas own entrapment. row such as shrieks and cricked in the sixth stanza between on line 2 an d 5, are Tennyson use of onomatopoeia to further involve the reader in how Marina is feeling by using harsh and penetrating sounds. through with(predicate) close analysis there are signs of hope Marina in inactives in us for both her fate and the return of her lover.In the first stanza on line 6, it is described that unlisted was the clinking latch emphasizing her hope for his return, and in the second stanza on line 8, when she glanced athwart the gloaming forthwiths, although the use of gloaming is a morbid foreshadowing, Marina watches her surroundings as if she is waiting for a s grey-hairedier to return from the battlefield and into her open arms. But as Marina deteriorates and hope fails her, so does the language in the poem.In the sixth stanza between lines 6 and 8, Marina descends into madness as her house becomes haunted by old faces, glimmered thro the doors, old toasters, trod the upper floors, old voices called her from without. The use of past tense with glimmered an d called signifies that Marianne is still living in the past, as her libido flows backwards. She remembers happier times because she is haunted, and the psychological reversions as well as physical deterioration move in parallel order, creating overwhelming spirit of degeneration and loss.In the subsist stanza, the true sparrows chirrup on the roof, the slow quantify ticking, this first and second line stood out. The sparrow is symbolic because it is a sign of impending death, in Christian homeboys the sparrow was seen as offering made by person without any means. As for the slow clock ticking, this can be interpreted for the lack of time and the poems constant circular motion before reaching its climax in the final stanza. However, because the clock is about to come to a halt it could as well as have the double meaning for Marinas impending death.Another literary symbol that Tennyson uses to draw up on Marinas yearning for her lover is the polar tree. The polar tree is a class ic symbol of the renegade lover and his broken promise it can be interpreted as a phallic symbol since it provides he only break in the otherwise barren and flat landscape. Within classic mythology the poplar tree is used in the text Metamorphoses, where Ovid describes how None, deserted by Paris, addresses the poplar on which Paris has carved his promise not to desert her. This interpretation is relevant to the reoccurring theme of abandonment and isolation within the poem.In the fourth stanza, the fifth line introduces the poplar tree as the Hard by a poplar shook alleyways silver-green with gnarled bark also making its existence sound temperamental and deteriorating through the use of gnarled bark and silver-green, these adjectives making it unappealing in the mind of the reader. Marina lusts for the company of her antecedent lover, so when she sees the gusty shadow sway, in the following fourth line of the fifth stanza, this is the remainder of the internal dominance her lov er had over her and his absence in her life which has been replaced by this desolate tree.The fact that she is still pining over his vacancy shows that he still holds power over her and is able to manipulate her, which could be said of women in society being under the control of men during Tennyson time. The poplar trees isolation haunts Marina hitherto in sleep, because it eternally serves as a remainder of the one who will never come. Death is also a prominent motif throughout the poem, as dead is repeated in the last line of every stanza in the refrain.In the climaxing, last stanza of the poem, Tennyson wrote on the sixth line but she loathed the hour/When the thick-mooted sunbeam lay, this phrase is emphasized by the caesura directly prior to it, and the comparatively period lacking punctuation which follows. The words thick and lay give the reader the impression that Marinas world is coated in dust, suggesting that it is morality which weighs her down since her life is unshea thed and oppressive. This idea is further emphasized by the day drawing to a close when Tennyson wrote in the last stanza on the 8th line, and the Dallas sloping toward his western bower. The imagery here is suggestive of the sun setting and her contemptible towards Angelo since the connotation of light has to do with living and mortality. The ending of the day, and the drawing of the poem can be interpreted as the ending of Marinas own life. In conclusion, much of Tennyson formation of the character Marina can be seen as a projection of his own psychological issues. His powerful use of imagery and pathetic fallacy illustrates the vie Marina faces between life and death as she diligently awaits her lovers return.