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I think it can be argued that Tennyson successfully presents human emotions by using aspects of the natural world in his poetry. In Tennyson's poem 'Mariana' he uses the imagery of decay to help suggest the extreme isolation in which the female character exists in. The description of her surroundings '... rusted nails... broken sheds looked sad and strange ...Weeded and worn the ancient thatch... the lonely moated grange...' let us see that the female has been waiting a long time - such a long time that everything around her is worn, dreary and old, just as she feels. Feeling has also been conveyed in another of Tennyson's poems, "The Lotus Eaters". The main focus of "Mariana" is on helping to creating a picture of an abandoned place and the idea that this place has been forgotten over time. This picture successfully conveys the female characters emotion of being abandoned and...

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