Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6923

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [39]

As to the two lines with “no man’s land” [in Book Two, Canto Seven, pages 206 and 211] there can be no capital in the first line because there it is a description while the capital is needed in the other line, because the phrase has acquired there the force of a name or appellation. I am not sure about the hyphen; it could be put but the no hyphen might be better as it suggests that no one in particular has as yet got possession.

1948