Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
Inspiration, Effort, Development

Old Forms into New Shapes

Jyoti doesn’t want to rest content with the forms. The yuga-dharma must be satisfied.

I don’t follow the যুগধর্ম [yugadhrma] myself in English poetry. There I have done the opposite, tried to develop old forms into new shapes instead of being gloriously irregular. In my blank verse, I have minimised or exiled pauses and overflows.

20 March 1937