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The poem “Marina” explores the theme of the death ofthe old self and the birth of a new self. There is beautiful use of ironic juxtaposition by T.S. Eliot. Seneca’s Hercules rose in horror of death whereas Shakespeare’s Pericles, awakened, rises in bliss. The maturity of Eliot’s use of allusions prepares the way for the concentrated experience in his future poetry. Through the metaphoric use of Marina, the poet paves the way for the progress of the spirit and reaching the blissful experience in the form of unison with Marina, a moment of transcendence. It is seen that how Eliot achieves intensely personal impersonality by making his protagonist a vehicle for conveying glimpses of another plane of reality, hidden and mysterious.