Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6591

Evaluations of 1934 – 1937 [3]

Is it only lines 2 and 3 that have a touch of the Overmind, or line 4 also?

Line 4 also though 2 and 3 have most of it.

Have you felt that touch anywhere else in my poetry? And is this rhythm in any way similar to that of Wordsworth’s

Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone?

No – it is quite a different rhythm – a rhythm of flight through sky-space not of ploughing lonely seas.

Of course by “similarity” I mean the source of inspiration being more or less the same.

There may have been other lines, but I do not remember any.

12 February 1934