Premium Content A Look at Despair: "Mariana in the South" compared to "Mariana"
By Megan Elizabeth Farris - April 22, 2007
Poets often revise and re-revise their work, as it can be difficult to fully express the emotions they want to invoke in the reader. Just a change of one word can change the entire meaning of a line, and poetry's usual brevity requires every single word to be the perfect choice. Tennyson wrote two versions of his "Mariana," the second being very…
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