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Abstract

This study explores the thematic significance in Tennyson's “Maud”. In the poem Tennyson shows a morbid, poetic soul. He dramatizes his precarious mental balance and allows him to embody the kinds of psychic confusions about social animality, lack of human value and mammonism that fill him and his society with anxiety. So we can say that Tennyson makes the role of the mad speaker in “Maud” as the means of divulging the corruption of society.Tennyson does not stop showing the sharpest criticism of the moneyed society, but tries to overcome it with love theme. Tennyson's position on love in “Maud” is somewhat aggressive. For he adopts the martial power and love as a personal and social redemption from the destructive world. So Tennyson seems to represent a positive answer to the problem of his society.