Marina



a)

  1. The first world war(1914-1918) gave rise to war poetry. 

  2. The poet who wrote about war and its horrors, especially in the trenches were called the 'war poets' or the 'Trench poets'. 

  3. Thomas Sterns Eliot(1888-1965) is one of the greatest of the modern poets. 

  4. He is a great poet and a great critic also. 

  5. He is a traditionalist rooted in classicism. 

  6. He is a stern realist. 

  7. He is a visionary who looks at life beyond the limits of time. 

  8. He conceives of literature as a continuous process in which the present contains the past. 

  9. According to Eliot, a modern poet should carry the tradition and create new literature, by expressing the present in a new modified manner. 

  10. Though a traditionalist, he rejected the mode of the language of the traditionalist.

  1. Eliot said that language did not suit modern use. 

  2. The language of the modern poet needs to be different as life is dominated by Science and technology. 

  3. Eliot is actually aware of the problems which modern mankind has to face. 

  4. Eliot we find, that, he is not only preoccupied with the present. 

  5. He is a mystic, who has a profound sense of the past and thus looks into the future. 

  6. For him, like Tolstoy, he believes the spirit exists in 'Now', in which past, present, and future are blended. 

  7. He has made the people aware of the danger of modern civilization. 


b) 

  1. T.S. Eliot's poem,'Marina' belongs to the group of,'Aerial poems'(1927-1930). 

  2. The poem starts with the question asked by Hercules in the epigraph-"Quis hic locus square regio, quae mundi plaga P". 

  3. This means,"What place is this? What region, what quarter of the world?" 

  4. Here the happy image of the region daughter of Pericles is contrasted with a reference to the story of Hercules. 

  5. The poem explores the theme of paternity by focusing on the rediscovery of his lost daughter. 

  6. Marina is the name of the daughter of Pericles, who has not seen her since her birth. 

  7. The five lines of the first stanza if Eliot's poem Marina, echo the questions asked by Hercules in the epigraph. 

  8. The next lines associate the dejection of the past. 

  9. Everything reminds him of his lost daughter. 

  10. However, as the poem proceeds further we get the optimism. 

  11. The breath of the pine tree is spread all over by the wind. 

  12. Marina reaches out the mystery, dissolved in peace. 

  13. It focuses on the theme of paternity. 

  14. Eliot attempts to recreate Shakespeare's plays. 

  15. The poem's concluding peace is forcefully conceived in relation to its opening. 

  16. The sea world and the dream world are captured and forced by the musical prose of the verse. 

  17. The next lines perhaps tries to convey the face of the daughter with the slowly rising boat. 

  18. The emerging past of the ship needs to be repaired. 

  19. Compassed to Pericles, who hears music unheard by others. 

  20. 20. Eliot hears the music in 'wood thrush' singing through the fog. 

  21. The sound of the water at a low and of the 'whispers' and 'small laughter'. 

  22. We find strong images and rhythms parallel to the feelings of the father, who is the speaker of the poem. 

  23. The victory over death is decisive.