Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1915

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 19, 1937

By the way S must be added to the list of vaccination impossibles. R asks me to warn you and Amal that if you vaccinate, you will get back your old friends the boils and Amal his old companion the stye. I pass on the warning to you without farther piling up the agony. A very nasty affair this vaccination, in any case.

Guru, this poem is in blank verse. The rhythm seems quite all right. Still the austerity and force have to come, I think, no?

Yes, good rhythm, fine poetry.

Of course, it is not the epic style, but in its kind it is very good.

I don’t like the sound of phāṭi ṭuṭi, do you?

Sounds somewhat too much like somebody dropping and breaking cups and saucers – doesn’t fit in with the rest of the style.

“I go mad when I see a deer in the spring woods ...”

Not really?!!