Mariana Themes

The titular character of "Mariana" doesn't have many friends… well, besides nature that is. Even then, she and the natural world aren't exactly besties. Mariana is a woman who has been jilted and...

In "Mariana," we have a poem about a jilted woman who lives in isolation, pining for her lost love. Sadness? Oh, you bet that's going to be a main theme here. But it's not just a sad love story. Th...

Mariana stays in her grange for most of the poem—she's trapped. It's surrounded by a moat, (kind of like a princess in a castle, waiting for a prince to rescue her), which leads to confinement no...