Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6900

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [16]

My remarks about the Bird passage [in the above letter] are written from the point of view of the change made and the new character and atmosphere it gives. I think the old passage was right enough in its own atmosphere, but not so good as what has replaced it: the alteration you suggest may be as good as that was but the objections to it are valid from the new standpoint.

7 July 1947