Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6772

Old Forms into New Shapes

Jyoti doesn’t want to rest content with the forms. The yuga-dharma must be satisfied.

I don’t follow the যুগধর্ম [yugadhrma] myself in English poetry. There I have done the opposite, tried to develop old forms into new shapes instead of being gloriously irregular. In my blank verse, I have minimised or exiled pauses and overflows.

20 March 1937