... aim intended by their writers. And one must not omit to mention a few snatches of philosophic song here Page 370 and there that are a quintessence at once of philosophic thought and poetic beauty, or the abundant literature of hymns, many of them consummate in their power and fervour and their charm of rhythm and expression which prepare us for the similar but larger work in the later regional... religious movement. Two other poems that have become classics, celebrate the greatness of Durga or Chandi, the goddess who is the Energy of Shiva,—the "Chandi" of Mukundaram, a pure romance of great poetic beauty which presents in its frame of popular legend a very living picture of the life of the people, and the "Annadamangal" of Bharatchandra repeating in its first part the Puranic tales of the gods as ...
... divergences rise from a conception of beauty and a feeling for beauty which belongs to the temperament Housman's 60 exaltation of Blake rises directly from his feel ing and peculiar conception of poetic beauty as appealing an inner sensation, an appeal marred and a beauty deflowered by coherent intellectual thought. But that I shall not discuss now. This however does not mean that all criticism is with-... beauty in Blake which they did not see before. They may not agree with him in his comparison of Blake and Shakespeare, but they can follow him to a certain extent and seize better that element in poetic beauty which he overstresses but makes at the same time more vividly visible. October 6, 1934 Yes, of course there is an intuition of greatness by which the great poet or artist is distinguished ...
... so much of character as of dramatic human moods, and a considerable power and vigour of rough verse and rugged language. But there is very little of the pure light of poetry in him or of sheer poetic beauty or charm and magic; he gets the highest or finest inspiration only in a line or two here and there. His expression is often not only rough and hasty but inadequate; in his later work he becomes... offend against morality? 31 January 1937 Baudelaire was never vulgar—he was too refined and perfect an artist to be that. He chose the evil of life as his frequent subject and tried to extract poetic beauty out of it, as a painter may deal with a subject that to the ordinary eye may be ugly or repellent and extract artistic beauty from it. But that is not the only stuff of his poetry. 22 July 1936 ...
... impersonal, independent of the personal reactions and passions of the mind, and that is why the poet is able to transmute pain and sorrow and the most tragic and terrible and ugly things into forms of poetic beauty, because of this impersonal joy of the spirit in all experience, whatever its nature. And as, therefore, the subject of the poet is all that he can feel of the infinite life of the spirit that creates... part of human perfection as indispensable as intellectual knowledge and at least as necessary to happiness as vital well-being. But this Ananda, this delight, this aesthesis which is the soul of poetic beauty works like other things, like poetic truth or the poetic breath of life, on different levels, in different provinces of its action, with the same law that we have observed in the rest, of the emergence... direction the bounds erected by the singers of the past around their magic palace and its grounds; he must claim all things in heaven or earth or beyond for his portion: but that care for a fine poetic beauty and delight which they safeguarded by excluding all or most that did not readily obey its law or turn to fair material of poetic shaping, he must preserve as jealously and satisfy by steeping all ...
... complicated by the fact that some lines or passages of what is classed as satirical verse are not strictly satirical but have the tone of a more elevated kind of poetry and rise to a very high level of poetic beauty,—for instance Dryden's descriptions of Absalom and Achitophel as opposed to his brilliant assault on the second duke of Buckingham. Or can we say that apart Page 78 from this question... of equality with the greater lines of Virgil? We may escape from this difficulty of our own logic by pointing out that when we speak of perfection we mean perfection of something essential for poetic beauty and not only perfection of speech and verse however excellent and consummate in its own inferior kind. Or we may say that we are speaking not only of perfection but of a kind of perfection that ...
... divergences rise from a conception of beauty and a feeling for beauty which belongs to the temperament. So too Housman's exaltation of Blake results directly from his feeling and peculiar conception of poetic beauty as an appeal to an inner sensation, an appeal marred and a beauty deflowered by bringing in a sharp coating or content of intellectual thought. But that I shall not discuss now. All this however... Blake something which they did not see before. They may not agree with him in his comparison of Blake and Shakespeare, but they can follow him to a certain extent and seize better that element in poetic beauty which he overstresses but makes at the same time more vividly visible. 5 October 1934 Abiding Intuition of Poetic and Artistic Greatness Yes, of course there is an intuition of greatness ...
... Page 117 though it is here the surging of the Atlantic between continents, not the magic roll and wash of the Aegean around the isles of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects—that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki—and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine." Thus... excerpts as we have made, we have on the whole an aesthesis finer than that broad-souled Titan's—and there is in addition the absence of the one un-Homeric feature in Whitman, the intermittent poetic beauty and nobility. The more concentrated exaltation of metrical rhythmic movement, without which "even his greatest things do not go absolutely and immediately home, or having entered they do not so ...
... He finds that their only merit is that they are good prose epithets, not otiose but right words in their right place and exactly descriptive but only descriptive without any suggestion of any poetic beauty or any kind of magic. Are there then prose epithets and poetic epithets and is the poet debarred from exact description using always the right word in the right place, the mot juste"? I am under... reject not, — The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? 11 We have again extreme poetic beauty there, but nothing of the Overhead note. In the other lines I have cited it is really the Overmind language and rhythm that have been to some extent transmitted; but of course all Overhead ...
... is therefore somewhat less impressive in him – he evokes more the being and less the becoming (speaking metaphysically). Rasa and rupa are however in the end the two wings of poetic beauty, and the perfect poetic beauty marries the two in an indivisible unity – although actually that is a rare phenomenon. Page 146 ...
... rush too of oceanic sound though it is here the surging of the Atlantic between continents, not the magic roll and wash of the Aegean around the isles of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects - that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki - and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine. 14 ... in it the soul of Beauty and thrills with Delight at the sheer rasa or quintessential aesthesis of this discovery: But this Ananda, this delight, this aesthesis which is the soul of poetic beauty works like other things, like poetic truth or the poetic breath of life on diff&rent levels, in different provinces of its actions with the same law that we have observed in the rest, of the emergence ...
... higher height than the general level of inspiration of the canto and it would be advisable that reader should read them as he would try to read a revelatory passage of the Upanishads, not that the poetic beauty of these parts is less than the others but the beauty is of a very unusual kind standing on a higher level of consciousness where men are not accustomed to ascend. This small passage of 35 lines... sight and expression, it is very difficult to make a choice of passages with special poetical merit. But there are single lines.. double lines, quartets throughout the poem that have a power of poetic beauty which grips our mind and can go on revealing its wealth like a mine. See how the three lines reach an Upanishadic height and grandeur in the intensity of the Vision in "The Heavens of the Ideal" ...
... imagery. The purpose is to convey through bare minimum of words and by direct utterance the truth, — explains Sri Aurobindo. Category Three Yet symbolic pictures and imagery of high poetic beauty are in store for us. These form the third category of symbolic images. These images are perfect paintings in words or, it may even be said, engravings of the figures and forms of Truth and Beauty ...
... Commedia. Sri Aurobindo said that there was no poet greater than Shakespeare (Valmiki and Homer excepted).* When he said so he was thinking of him as a master of rhythm and language and of poetic beauty — of his essential poetic force: the pure and uncorrupted spontaneity, "expressions wherein hie flow's with that facility," "his mind and hand went together. And what he thought, he uttered with ...
... human thought as well) in their scope and touch too the things which the Greeks and Elizabethan poets could not even glimpse. But as poets—as masters of rhythm and language and the expression of poetic beauty—Vyasa and Valmiki are not inferior, but also not greater than the English or the Greek poet. I leave aside the question whether the Mahabharata was not the creation of the mind of a people rather ...
... not its spiritual value be lost in a translation from a different plane?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "If you mean the spiritual substance, I suppose it would be lost. I was looking at the poetic beauty of Nishikanto's Page 138 rendering which is on a par with the original. As for the subtle vital sublimated it enters largely into Amal's poem, even if it is a sort of supervital ...
... pursues the English poetical genius, the one gift needed to complete him was denied. Power was there and the hold of his material; what was absent was the essential faculty of artistic form and poetic beauty, so eminent in his contemporaries, a fatal deficiency. This great creator was no artist; this strength was too robust and direct to give forth sweetness. There was no lack of Page 157 ...
... poetry. The poet, we must always remember, creates out of himself and has the indefeasible right to follow freely the breath of the spirit within him, provided he satisfies in his work the law of poetic beauty. The external forms of his age and his nation only give him his starting-point and some of his materials and determine to some extent, by education, by a subconscious and automatic environmental ...
... death too was more lamentable, since Keats died and inspired Adonais and so in a way his passing was compensated for, while the remembrance of Shelley's dust has never bloomed into immortal poetic beauty. If he had lived, his progress would have been towards reflective mysticism. We are too apt to ignore the intellect Shelley possessed: Mary's reminiscences as well as his own prose writings afford ...
... He finds that their only merit is that they are good prose epithets, not otiose but right words in their right place and exactly descriptive but only descriptive without any suggestion of any poetic beauty or any kind of magic. Are there then prose epithets and poetic epithets and is the poet debarred from exact description using always the right word in the right place, the mot juste? I am under ...
... dream divine. Look deep for his true royalty's sign: Haloed with hush he enters, coronaed with calm he goes! "The purple of his dream divine": that is the truth at the back of all poetic beauty. But the expression naturally differs from poem to poem. In "Soul of Song" there is what you may call "intonation". This intonation you do feel also in the last verse of "Advice", but here the whole ...
... with smiles and epigrams. There are a number of translations of all the three shatakas in Hindi and English from the original Sanskrit. The original Sanskrit is relatively simple, although full of poetic beauty. Those who have some acquaintance with Sanskrit can be advised to read them in the original. Page 144 Bodies without mind One who is devoid of poetry, music, and art is verily ...
... comprise the essence of the poetic faculty is native to his temperament. It would seem that the poet, in his inner being, is in direct contact with some far-away Land of Felicity where the Muse of Poetic Beauty reigns supreme and the unearthly strains of music and the magical hues of that land flow through him unhindered in large streams of haunting melody and captivating vision… Without the poet having ...
... human thought as well in their scope and touch too on things which the Greek and Elizabethan poets could not even glimpse. But as poets — as masters of rhythm and language and the expression of poetic beauty — Vyasa and Valmiki though not inferior are not greater than either the English or the Greek poet." 1 Homer has given the presentation of life always at a high intensity of impulse and ...
... little things." 169 So either you have a little mind or a big mind, you can see; and this is in the epic by Sri Aurobindo. Where lies the beauty? The truth is universal, everybody knows it, but the poetic beauty of it I don't need to discuss here. How true it is, how memorable it is, how simple it is, how direct it is - a universal truth: "The little Mind is tied to little things" - so my little mind was ...
... a father. From the poetic point of view, I think the whole beauty of this line would have been murdered if it had the words "my soul, my son" (Laughter) or "my soul, my bride" instead! The poetic beauty comes through admirably with "my soul, my daughter." However, that's a digression, and I am sorry to have digressed too far. Like Lamb, 282 always coming back to the centre of his point in spite ...
... in the earthly life. His mission and performance were to manifest beauty in all possible ways. Many have contributed to the creation of beauty in poetry and there are works which are supreme in poetic beauty. There is no doubt that Tagore is one of the foremost among them. But the especiality of Rabindranath lies in the fact that the poet in his inner soul permeated his whole being. Even if he had not ...
... experience and of aesthesis which goes beyond personal reactions and passions of the mind, the poet is able to transform pain and sorrow and the most tragic an terrible and ugly things into forms of poetic beauty. Beauty is harmony of form, and although there can be and there are different views about harmony or what constitutes harmony, beauty always lies in the form that issue from bliss. The poet is always ...
... admits of a high or a strong or delicate poetry and a representation, if not any very profound interpretation of human action and motive and they do not fall short in this kind. A great charm of poetic beauty and subtle feeling and atmosphere,—reaching its most accomplished type in the Shakuntala of Kalidasa, the most perfect and captivating romantic drama in Page 365 all literature,—or an ...
... on life, shows us as if by accident the seed in our normal nature which can grow into the prodigious spiritual truth of universal love. He has to do it in his own way in the mould of poetic Page 235 beauty and delight, and if we judge by such instances, we shall say that so only he has to do it, to cast as if casually the seed of the beauty and delight of some high mood of life and nature ...
... rush too of oceanic sound though it is here the surging of the Atlantic between continents, not the magic roll and wash of the Aegean around the isles of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects—that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki—and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine. Whitman will ...
... well) in Page 367 their scope and touch too on things which the Greek and Elizabethan poets could not even glimpse. But as poets—as masters of rhythm and language and the expression of poetic beauty—Vyasa and Valmiki are not inferior , but also not greater than the English or the Greek poet. We can leave aside for the moment the question whether the Mahabharata was not the creation of the ...
... a clear national tradition and principle of form, but not easily in poetry. For here the mere representation of life cannot be enough, however vivid or however strongly subjected to the law of poetic beauty it may be. Poetry must strive at least towards a presentation from within and not at simple artistic reproduction; and the principle of presentation must be something more than that of the eye on ...
... 30 January 1935 I have seen the poems marked by you—they are certainly among the best you have written before you came here. I have looked carefully at the "Jealousy of God"; it has much poetic beauty throughout. The idea of the Divine jealousy is a very apt imagination and serves to carry the meaning of the poem beyond the earth-limits to the beyond—as such it is striking and legitimate. But ...
... the Heavens reject not,— The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? We have again extreme poetic beauty there, but nothing of the overhead note. In the other lines I have cited it is really the overmind language and rhythm that have been to some extent transmitted; but of course all overhead poetry ...
... only merit is that they are good prose epithets, not otiose but right words in their right place and Page 338 exactly descriptive but only descriptive without any suggestion of any poetic beauty or any kind of magic. Are there then prose epithets and poetic epithets and is the poet debarred from exact description using always the right word in the right place, the mot juste ? I am under ...
... et triomphants". Baudelaire's Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies appears in Tate as Expansions to the infinite of pain. which is unfaithful to the French besides lacking the poetic beauty of Chadwick's Winged with outflowing through the finite's mesh. You'll find all these departures from the original "not permissible" but you must have realised that none of them stems from ...
... its spiritual value be lost in a translation from a different plane?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "If you mean the spiritual substance, I suppose it would be lost. I was looking at the poetic beauty of Nishikanta's rendering which is on a par with the original. As for the subtle vital sublimated it enters largely into Amal's poem, even if it is a sort of supervital." * ...
... Thus not only the original words but their original order too cannot bear to be touched. Without them we would fail to see, feel and hear the mystic phenomenon to the full extent in terms of poetic beauty. Conversely, nothing short of the deep sense of that phenomenon would call forth the precise form of expressive aesthesis. Here the second line is of prime importance. For it is the "distance-haunted" ...
... There may be no excuse, but there sure is the joy of working with, and on, Savitri and of sharing discoveries of beauty and rhythm. Sri Aurobindo explained and discussed the meaning and poetic beauty and rhythm of many a line. There are similar waves and rhythms in the poem as a whole and in its various parts. Each Canto is a total piece with its own poetic values, its own complex grandeur ...
... experience. The Vedas and the Upanishads are not primarily artistic creations, structures of speculative thought or manuals of morality and religious injunction. No doubt, they are masterpieces of poetic beauty and sub-limity, embalm enormous audacities of the thinking mind, fountain forth a myriad wisdom of noble living. But, first and foremost, they are scriptures of God-realisation, word-embodiments ...
... value of a poem lost in translation by the difference of the planes, though it may be poetically excellent? If you mean the spiritual substance, I suppose it would be lost. I was looking at the poetic beauty of Nishikanta's rendering which is on a par with the original. As for the subtle .vital, the vital sublimated enters largely into Amal's poem, even if it is a sort of super-vital. [D.R. cart ...
... such an employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record in verse the origin and progress of his own powers as far as he was acquainted with them. Apart from the poetic beauty of Wordsworth's poems, what is of singular significance is the substance of the experiences that are described. These e xperiences transcend the ordinary limits of the mind. They bring us the message ...
... apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth, nee plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme: Yasyaite himavanto mahitva He whose greatness these snowy ranges declare ...
... and the Ramayana, between the styles of Vyasa and Valmiki. This too is the difference between Wordsworth and Shelley. The Ramayana has always been recognised Page 101 for its poetic beauty; Valmiki is our first great poet, ādi-kavi. In the Mahabharata we appreciate not so much the beauty of poetic form as a treasury of knowledge, on polity and ethics, culture and spirituality ...
... between .the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, between the styles of Vyasa and, Valmiki. This too is the difference between Wordsworth and Shelley. The Ramayana has always been recognised for its poetic beauty; Valmiki is our first great poet, a di-kavi. In the Mahabharata we find not so much the beauty of poetic form as a treasury of knowledge, of polity and ethics, culture and moral and spiritual ...
... It is the song of redemption, of salvation achieved, of Paradise regained. The full story of the purgatory, of man's calvary is beautifully hymned in these exquisite lines of a haunting poetic beauty married to a real mystic sense: The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. ...
... difference between the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, between the styles of Vyasa and Valmiki. This too is the difference between Wordsworth and Shelley. The Ramayana has always been recognised for its poetic beauty; Valmiki is our first great poet, a di-kavi. In the Mahabharata we appreciate not so much the beauty of poetic form as a treasury of knowledge, on polity and ethics, culture and spirituality. We ...
... apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth, nec plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme: Yasyaite himavanto mahitvā He whose greatness these snowy ranges declare ...
... more obedient to the world forces of ignorance and falsehood, their lord is the anti-Divine, ¹ These lines of Marlowe are often quoted by Sri Aurobindo as an example to show the height of poetic beauty which the English language is capable of expressing. Page 399 whose name is Satan. A legend says that at the beginning of creation there was a wager between God and Satan. Satan ...
... সাপে’?” He replied: “On the whole নবারুণ seems to me better.” One can almost say he led us onward, holding us by the hand. We were making various experiments with poetry, not regarding the poetic beauty alone, but regarding the rhythm too. The more we entered into the rhythmic varieties the more was the enjoyment... We realised that the knowledge of rhythm intensifies this delight. Feeling and ...
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