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 [42]

Bliss into black coma fallen, insensible. [p. 221]

Neither of your scansions can stand. The best way will be to spell “fallen” “fall’n” as is occasionally done and treat “bliss into” as a dactyl.

1948