Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Tennyson suffered set backs when first starting writing his poetry, he was financially unstable and could not afford to marry his fiance. It took him twelve years to be able to afford to marry her, his financial situation affected him so much that people thought he might commit suicide. Things however changed and he became a favorite among the people. He was named Poet Laurette, then Lord, and finally Baron. He began to make thousands a year, and even offered a hundred thousand dollars for a three stanza poem.

My favorite poem was Marina, to me it seemed as if it was about the one that Marina loved who had left her and in everything she saw she was reminded of him and the fact that he left her depressed and hurt.

And wild winds bound within their cell,
The shadow of the poplar fell
Upon her bed, across her brow.
She onnly said, "the night is dreary,
He cometh not," she said;
She said, " I am aweary,aweary
I would that I were dead!"

Angelo, had refused to marry Marina after her brother and her dowry are lost in a ship wreck. So in this stanza of the poem Tennyson is using the wind possibly to symbolize the ship wreck and that is the reason he left her. This could be a possible interpetation. Every stanza in this poem Marina is reminded of Angelo who left her and at the end of every stanza she repeats

She onnly said, "the night is dreary,
He cometh not," she said;
She said, " I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!"
The fact that he left her has devastated her that she wants to die. She wishes she were dead rather than living without him. This poem is a little melodramatic for me, but none the less good.