Sri Aurobindo's principal work of literary criticism where he outlines the history of English poetry and explores the possibility of a spiritual poetry in the future.
On Poetry
Sri Aurobindo's principal work of literary criticism. In this work, Sri Aurobindo outlines the history of English poetry and explores the possibility of a spiritual poetry in the future. It was first published in a series of essays between 1917 and 1920; parts were later revised for publication as a book.
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Lines 1, 3, two ionics a minore with a final amphibrach,
Lines 2, 4, choriamb, paeon, antibacchius (or sometimes bacchius or amphibrach),
When the heart tires and the throb stills recalling Things that were once and again can be never, When the bow falls and the drawn string is broken, Hands that were clasped, yet for ever are parted,
When the soul passes to new births and bodies, Lands never seen and meetings with new faces, Is the bow raised and the fall'n arrow fitted, Acts that were vain rewedded to the Fate-curve?
To the lives sundered can Time bring rejoining, Love that was slain be reborn with the body? In the mind null, from the heart's chords rejected, Lost to the sense, but the spirit remembers!
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