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 [23]

Why “immunity” — the singular — and not “immunities” to replace “immensities”?

“Immunities” in the plural is much feebler and philosophically abstract — one begins to think of things like “qualities” — naturally it suggested itself to me as keeping up the plural sequence, but it grated on the sense of spiritual objective reality and I had to reject it at once. The calm immunity was a thing I could at once feel, with immunities the mind has to cavil: “Well, what are they?”

23 May 1937