Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6908

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [24]

As if the original Ukase still held back [cf. p. 76]

I have accented on the first syllable as I have done often with words like “occult”, “divine”. It is a Russian word and foreign words in English tend often to get their original accent shifted as far backward as possible. I have heard many do that with “ukase”.

20 May 1937