Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 971

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

Undated

(Re. Bharati’s poem “Clarity”)

This poem has not much poetical force, though the ideas carry some appeal. It is written in the more obvious modernist style and in the half-conversational free verse language which so many modernists affect and that is seldom successful; even Elliot does not always carry it off. In metre the “conversational-poetic” style comes off more easily as the rhythmic mould brings in a cadence that gives it poetic value.