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By what means and how effectively does the poem present the experience of grief and loneliness?
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By what means and how effectively does the poem present the experience of grief and loneliness? Mariana is a poem that deals with the classic Romantic issues of isolation and suffering, yet Tennyson avoids a character study and instead focuses on examining the mood and states of feeling. Stylistically, the melancholic tone is conveyed perfectly: caesuras occur in the middle of each line, and this creates a rhythmic, faltering tone that possesses simultaneous pain and beauty; Particularly in the refrain, where the addition of repetition suggests a lack of breath and a general slowdown of time that represents the slow mental anguish suffered by Mariana. Mariana's suffering is conveyed, yet she seems to wallow in this, enjoying the harmony. The regular rhyme scheme, along with the tendency to rhyme on the monosyllables results in a monotonous melancholy that pervades the poem, and audibly creates the feeing of boredom. Stanzas are fixed...
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