Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7944

Q: You have distinguished five kinds of poetic style – the adequate, the effective, the illumined, the inspired, the inevitable. In what kind are the following lines from my “Ne plus ultra”? –

Is the keen voice of tuneful ecstasy

To be denied its winged omnipotence,

Its ancient kinship to immensity

And the swift suns?

A: This seems to me the effective style at a high pitch.