Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6915

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [31]

I still consider the line a very good one and it did perfectly express what I wanted to say – as for “baldness”, an occasionally bare and straightforward line without any trailing of luminous robes is not an improper element. E.g. “This was the day when Satyavan must die”, which I would not remove from its position even if you were to give me the crown and income of the Kavi Samrat for doing it. If I have changed here, it is because the alterations all around it made the line no longer in harmony with its immediate environment.

21 May 1937