Answer to Question #315878 in English for Ay-moh Lee

Question

Analyse "Marina" by T.S Eliot as a modernist poem

Answer 1

The theme of Marina bears out a new experience in Eliot’s poetic faith. From the sad scrutiny of the hollowness of modern life, Eliot is found to traverse in a different direction in Marina. He reveals here his Puritan distaste for the sensual pleasures, often sought by men. It also exposes his Christian conviction of salvation to come through the restitution of the Christian faith. From the mood of disgust and depression in The Hollow Men or The Waste Land, Eliot turns in Marina as in his other Aerial Poems, to the spiritual revelation, to the new religious experience which forms the central contention of the poem.