Subject Matter

The poem is featured around a lady named Mariana who throughout the poem is shown waiting for her lover, a man called Angelo. Her mood throughout the poem is shown by the poet's use of pathetic fallacy examples of this are "Lonely moated grange; stanza 1, thickest dark; stanza 2.

Theme

The main theme in the poem "Mariana" is loneliness. Although this is the main theme of the poem there are other smaller themes to it such as, the feelings of Hope and lost hope and the consequences of acting or not acting on you emotions. The character Mariana chose not to act and through this course of inaction she found herself lonely and eventually losing hope.

Emotions

The poem Mariana shows us many emotions; the overall feeling behind the poem is very negative and depressing. Although the feeling of hope is shown frequently it's not felt...