Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2117

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 2, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

In yesterday’s poem, you seem to have put paeon in 3 or 4 places. Is that so?

Paeon? I don’t think I did it consciously,– don’t remember. In this metre I generally run to anapaestic-iambic, but I may occasionally plunk in a paeon or two in the exuberance of my soul.

R.B.’s pain is more marked just below the apex. I couldn’t touch a single spot without her crying “Pain, pain.” I can’t make head or tail of the thing. It has been with her for 7 years, she says. I might consult André.

[Mother:] Yes, it is better.