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
On Savitri

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [10]

Is the r-effect in

Never a rarer creature bore his shaft [p. 14]

deliberate?

Yes, like Shakespeare’s

... rock his brains

In cradle of the rude imperious surge.

Mine has only three sonant r’s, the others being inaudible — Shakespeare pours himself 5 in a close space.

2 November 1936