bear fruit – she is 'wilting', or pining away. We know that Mariana is very unhappy – she cries all the time 'with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried' and yet, she cannot seek comfort from god – 'she [can]not look on the sweet heaven'. Tennyson uses bats to portray evil, and implies that the night is magical – and overpowering as ' thickest night did trance the sky'. In order to create!
             the correct image Tennyson uses specific words that enhance the mood. In the phrase 'she heard the night-fowl crow', the words are carefully chosen. It is probably an owl – traditionally an evil bird, this depicts gloom. The word &apo
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