Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the most famous poets of the Victorian era, some of his most famous poems include Ulysses, In Memoriam or Lady of Shalott. This article will focus on his poem published in 1830 entitled Mariana. Mariana is Tennyson's famous poem, inspired by the character of the same name from Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure. T. S. Eliot felt in Mariana "something new happening in English verse", and critics such as Carol Christ or Dwight Culler have "preceptively commented on her use of atomistic details to create a landscape of strangeness appropriate to this sick-spirited maiden ". Mariana is a complex poem: it is both a lyric poem and a pathetic mistake. This article will focus on how meter, rhythm, imagery, and metaphor create meaning and set tone. The poem opens with a quote from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure 'Mariana in the moated grange'. In the play Mariana is abandoned by her lover Angleo and spends her days on a lonely farm. The quote provides the reader of the poem with the theme main one that explores, which is Mariana's desire for her lover to return. Interestingly, the quote is missing a verb, implying that there is no action in the poem, that there is a sense of stasis or a sense of time. infinite, isolation and desperation, Mariana can therefore be defined as a lyric poem, indeed, lyric poetry, as JS Mill says, expresses the "feeling that is confessed to itself in solitude". case, the poem Mariana is in a certain sense a rewriting of Mariana, the character of Shakespeare's play also reinforces this idea of ​​lyricism, "lyrical poetry can be said to more obviously preserve the elements that highlight its origins in music... in the middle of the paper... the sense of endless time" the slow ticking of the clock", he was aware of the unusual slowness of time. The poem ends with Mariana turning to God "Oh God, if I were dead", here we have an ironic reference to Measure for Measure, in fact in the comedy Duke Vincentio disguised as a fiar brings the two lovers together. A question that the poem raises is the question of voices, in fact Mariana said only a few things and the narrator tells the rest of her story, here we see the passivity of Mariana, who is just waiting for her lover. She is the center of the poem and yet she is not given a strong voice, she is not the actress of his life but a simple spectator, she is the second character in a play waiting for her verse. Mariana is a complex poem, a poem that is "notable for its depiction of regression and decay on both a material and psychological level." Indeed