Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1987
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
July 3, 1937
I can’t quite make out the link between the stanzas, and some things do not seem logical.
Well, sir, it is quite obvious that your poem is hopelessly inconsequent. For a man of logic (?) such divagations must be a release, I suppose.1 However there is good stuff in it and I have tried to put the three meanderings right.
... It is not blank verse, Amal says, as there are rhymes – seas, centuries, memories, etc. What sort of a poem is it then? Shall I allow rhymes as they come?
Let us call it modern verse which is never anything, blank or unblank, but rhymes when it feels inclined to and doesn’t when it isn’t.
1 See last paragraph of 21.6.37, p. 972.