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 [35]

The hopes that fade to drab realities [cf. p. 159]

“Dun” occurred to me as less common than “drab” with “realities”.

I need “dun” afterwards, besides “drab” gives the more correct colour.

20 November 1936