... electrically free in the spaces of Ananda, another part of him remains conscious of the world below. Even as he bears witness to the splendours above, his soul articulates the earth's prayer set as a poetic image of incalculable charm by Sri Aurobindo: In the centre of his vast and fateful trance Half-way between his free and fallen selves, Interceding twixt God's day and the mortal's night ...
... Art's sake' of the pre-Raphaelite movement. This brings into poetry the notion of imagery as "detachable ornaments studded all over the surface of the poem," as C. Day Lewis comments in his The Poetic Image. Can images as mere "detachable ornaments" be accepted as to create great poetry? Sri Aurobindo does not think so, and he categorically asserts: "I have not anywhere in Savitri written ...
... the warm radiance of love. After this we can no longer look disdainfully at that slowly creeping worm. The ennobling and enhaloing of the earth by a wide spiritual love is the essence of the poetic image so that watching a bird we ring out in ecastasy, like Blake: Arise you little flashing wings and sing your infant joy! Arise and drink your bliss, for everything that lives is holy ...
... Sanskrit both a cow and a ray of light. This double sense is used by the Vedic symbolists to suggest a double figure which was to them more than a figure; for light, in their view, is not merely an apt poetic image of thought, but is actually its physical form. Thus, the herds that are milked are the Herds of the Sun,—Surya, God of the revelatory and intuitive mind, or else of Dawn, the goddess who manifests ...
... 'Immeasurable heights', 'bourneless change', 'Omniscient knowing without sight or thought', not to mention 'violent ecstasy', 'sweetness dire', 'stupendous limbs'. It all adds up to nothing in terms of poetic image or symbol, 'the Unknown's grasp' too - all these on one page. True, there are two lines where the paradox of: 'In a moment shorter than death, longer than time' at least produces ...
... beauteous forms of Krishna — the unclad Rudra, is there, Indra, Brahma, all. The Iron Age shall cease to be — do ye but unite and serve these. * * * Page 166 Love-Mad* The poetic image used in the following verses is characteristically Indian. The mother of a love-stricken girl (symbolising the human soul yearning to merge into the Godhead) is complaining to her friend of the ...
... College of Surgeons - could hope to do, unless the sky falls and overwhelms them with grace. "But leaving aside acknowledged F.R.C.S.'s we may ask whether Eliot has produced here a true poetic image that could please this unconventional F.R.C.S. before you - this Fellow Researching in Comparisons and .Symbols or if you want to generalise, this Fellow Roaring to Cute Students. At once we have ...
... edition, Pondicherry, 1972, p. 153. ² Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, vol. 5, Centenary edition, Pondicherry, 1972, p. 161 Page 167 Appendix XIII Love Mad¹* The poetic image used in the following verses is characteristically Indian. The mother of a love-stricken girl (symbolising the human soul yearning to merge into the Godhead) is complaining to her friend of the ...
... the creative activity of the poet offered by the psychologists by referring it to the "subconscious" and the "collective inconscient" is most unconvincing and at best partial. Day Lewis in his Poetic Image states that the process of creation of a poem is more or less a mystery. The difficulty in tracing the origin of a poem arises from the fact that the consciousness of the poet as of all men is ...
... Questions? Sweet Mother, I did not understand: "She throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine...." Did not understand? Because you don't have a poetic mind, so... It is a poetic image to express... You must not understand these things with a positivist mind; you must have a little feeling for the harmony of words and phrases. "Maheshwari lays down the large lines of the ...
... that form. Today much of the poetry of Tagore is the sign of such a Sadhana, a long inheritance of assured spiritual discovery and experience. But what is given whether directly or in symbol or in poetic image is not the formal steps of the Sadhana, but Page 236 the strongly felt movement and the living outcome, the vision and life and inner experience, the spirit and power and body of sweetness ...
... the Royal College of Surgeons could hope to do — unless the sky falls and overwhelms them with grace. But, leaving aside acknowledged F.R.C.S.'s we may ask whether Eliot has produced here a true poetic image that could please this unconventional F.R.C.S. before you — this Fellow Researching in Comparisons and Symbols or, if you want to generalise, this Fellow Roaring to Cute Students. At once we have ...
... and risen again with its world-unifying yet characteristically Indian face. Those two words, "Eternal Charioteer", are scarcely clear enough to stamp any vivid Indianness upon it: they make just a poetic image, they do not call up the figure of Sri Krishna who charioted Arjuna at the same time to triumph over his enemies and to the Vision of the Cosmic Deity - the Vision that is itself so typically Indian ...
... 1. Very neat and conceited. But perhaps the intellectual ingenuity of the conceit is too pronounced to allow the conversion of the conceit into the enduring poetic image. "Saboteur" ought, I believe, to have its accents on the first and third syllable, you seem to put it on the second; - a "has" would set the rhythm right. 2. Good; some of the lines ...
... Aurobindo's Comments) 1. Very neat and conceited. But perhaps the intellectual ingenuity of the conceit is too pronounced to allow die conversion of the conceit into the entirely poetic image. "Saboteur" ought, I believe, to have its accents on the first and third syllable, you seem to put it on the second; - a "has" would set the rhythm right. 2. Good; some of the lines are very ...
... held responsible for great creation. Even today, after so much work by new psychology, the critics admit that the roots of creative power of the artist are mysterious. C. Day Lewis in his book The Poetic Image says:— " It is a veiled vision, a partial intuition communicated to him from the depth of human heart. If he needs mystery, the last mystery is there, and of all that proceeds from man's ...
... held responsible for great creation. Even today, after so much work by new psychology, the critics admit that the roots of creative power of the artist are mysterious. C. Day Lewis in his book 'The Poetic Image' says: "It is a veiled vision, a partial intuition communicated to him from the depth of human heart. If he needs mystery, the last mystery is there, and of all that proceeds from man's. heart ...
... of the poet as that of an exaltation or "enthousiasmos", the state of being in God.¹ In India, the idea that poetry and all ______________________ ¹ Mr. C. Day Lewis in his work "the Poetic Image" analyses the process of poetic creation and at last finds that it is something "mysterious". He advises the poets of the future to resort to "Concentration"—"a brooding concentration, the ...
... there was the institution of caturvarnya which, in its Vedic origins (as may be inferred from the celebrated Purusha Sukta), had a "symbolic, religious or psychological significance"; no mere poetic image this, no "economic evolution complicated by political causes", no iniquitous system of exploitation: To them [the men of the Vedic age] this symbol of the Creator's body was more than an ...
... Veda is the legend of the Angirasas. Its theme is the spiritual life of man but, to make it concrete to themselves and while veiling its secrets from the unfit, the Vedic poets expressed it in poetic images drawn from outward life. The Angirasas are pilgrims of the light. They are those who travel towards the goal and attain to the highest, "they who travel to and attain that supreme treasure" (II... that which flows in the seven waters, it is that with which the ghrita, the clarified butter of the mystic sacrifice, is instinct, it is the honeyed wave which rises out of the ocean of life. Such images, as pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, can have only one meaning: "It is the divine delight hidden in all existence which, once manifest, supports all life's crowning activities and is the force that finally... the truth and think with straightness and thus are able to hold the seat of illumined knowledge {vide Rig Veda, X.67.2). The ancient Indian idea of the teacher is conceived in the light of the image of the Angirasas, and it is for this reason that the teacher came to be placed so supreme. The verses we have selected for this book give only a few glimpses of the aspirations and achievements of the ...
... Veda is the legend of the Angirasas. Its theme is the spiritual life of man but, to make it concrete to themselves and while veiling its secrets from the unfit, the Vedic poets expressed it in poetic images drawn from outward life. The Angirasas are pilgrims of the lights. They are those who travel towards the goal and attain to the highest, 'they who travel to and attain that supreme treasure' (11... that which flows in the seven waters, it is that with which the ghrita, the clarified butter of the mystic sacrifice, is instinct, it is the honeyed wave which rises out of the ocean of life. Such images, as pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, can have only one meaning: 'It is the divine delight hidden in all existence which once manifest, supports all life's crowning activities and is the force that finally... the truth and think with straightness and thus are able to hold the seat of illumined knowledge (vide Rig Veda, X.67.2). The ancient Indian idea of the teacher is conceived in the light of the image of the Angirasas, and it is for this reason that the teacher came to be placed so supreme. The verses we have presented here give only a few glimpses of the aspirations and achievements of the ancient ...
... without any image-colour — almost abstractly, one may say, but with perfect pointedness and faultless rhythm — that is, in a thoroughly poetic way yet by suppression of all imagery, except perhaps for a slight indirect touch of it in "Sign." Here is Logopoeia — poetic word-thought — in concentrated clarity matching exactly the compact picturesqueness of the preceding verse's Phanopoeia — poetic word-image... not need word-music or word-imagery in order to be present we may define Logopoeia as poetic emotion fused with thought-speech more appreciably than with music-speech or image-speech, though never without these last two in some form or other. It is rather a ticklish job to decide the degree of music-speech or image-speech that would allow poetry to be called thought-speech instead of something else... home a banana. This is a vigorous poetic substitute for the well-known Latin phrase: "Montes parturiunt et nascetur ridiculus mus" — "Mountains are in travail and a ridiculous mouse will be born." Yes, successful Logopoeia is difficult to achieve. But when it is achieved it can be as memorable poetry as anything phanopoeic. No line, however astonishing in image, has surpassed the Dantesque assertion ...
... Colourless Fire." But there is sometimes a wrestling with the sense she has of the marvels within, around, above, and a turning of them into poetic shape with a deliberative and constructive imagination — a vivid forceful thinking out in images: then the effect is not directly revealing and the inner tone which is almost never absent gets weakened. Here and there we meet with a certain smiling... future Time Lean past the bars of Being, whisper their secret word, Yearn to be made rock...Dilapidate Sublime — or with a fusion of almost all the varieties exemplified above of poetic imaged speech in a grand attitude of keenly felt self-dedication to the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo: Precarious boat that brought me to this strand Shall feed flame-pinnacles from stem to stern... and the limitations of a fixed metre and yet have a poetic rhythm, not either a flat or an elevated prose rhythm cut up into lengths. I think this poem shows how it can be done. There is a true poetic rhythm, even a metrical beat, but without any fixity, pliant and varying with the curve or sweep of the thought and carrying admirably its perfect poetic expression." We may also note here, in passing, the ...
... question is Page 676 what do these symbols represent, what is their religious or other significance? Are they simply mythological figures with no depth of meaning behind them? Are they the poetic images of an old Nature-worship, mythological, astronomical, naturalistic, symbols of the action of physical phenomena represented as the action of the gods? Or have they another and more mystic significance... first lit it in the shape of a forest fire. Otherwise it is an ornamental and otiose description. But if we assume for the moment that behind this image Agni is hinted at as the Hotri of the inner sacrifice, then it is worth seeing what these images mean. The first words tell us that this flame of conscient Will, this great thing within us, अयमिह, has been set here in man by the Gods, the creators... idea of Vedic thinking; and if we keep it well in mind, we shall be able to understand the peculiar imagery of the Veda. Earth is the image of the material being; material being, delight, action etc are the growths of earth; therefore their Page 693 image is the forests, the trees, plants, all vegetation, वन, वनस्पति, ओषधी. Agni is hidden in the trees and plants, he is the secret heat and ...
... Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1 Poetic Imagery in Savitri Even a casual reader of Sri Aurobindo's poem Savitri will be struck by its profuse wealth of poetic images. Not a single page passes under his eyes without unloading its rich and varied cargo of imagery before him and it is a cargo from many countries, from many worlds; it is a cargo of dreams... these kinds of images. At any rate, we never feel that we are reading some soul-uplifting poetry when we peruse the works of those modernist authors. The images that are inspired in their minds have got their source somewhere no doubt in the deeper layers of our consciousness, but they are the layers that had better be left untapped rather than be made the founts of our poetic inspiration. For... curios and novelties that dazzle and enchant and surprise our unaccustomed eyes. These images are the creations of a poet in whose vision even the most prosaic, even the most worldly things are transformed into exquisite or magnificient vehicles of profoundly mystic and at the same time utterly poetic ideas. Of these many gems, we shall here pass in review some of the extremely bright ones ...
... without any image-colour—almost abstractly, one may say, but with perfect pointedness and fauldess rhythm—that is, in a thoroughly poetic way yet by suppression of all imagery, except perhaps for a light indirect touch of it in "sign". Here is Logopoeia—poetic word-thought—in concentrated clarity matching exactly the compact picturesqueness of the preceding verse's Phanopoeia—poetic word-image. ... though poetic nonetheless and having, as it were, in its tail-end a faint foresahdow of the intuitive turn which is about to come in its wake. We can observe from the Rishi-excerpt and the Savitri -"quotes" that Logopoeia is most effective when it is intuitive rather than expository. And at its highest it can make as memorable poetry as anything Phanopoeia No line, however astonishing in image, has... is a poet. Poets are already mad in a special way—they cannot go mad in the ordinary manner: it must be the non-poetic avatar of Pound that has qualified for the mental home. Anyway, his classification of poetry which I am about to adopt hails from his early days when his was only the poetic madness which is well known from ancient times—the furor poeticus, as the Romans characterised it. Pound ...
... 175 may well be that she has indeed settled the date of the poem. I can't see Coleridge as likely to be accurate about dates. He may well have read Wordsworth's letter. The thing about poetic images and metaphors and symbols is not that it is either from this source or from that, but and, as in the imaginative world a crystallization takes place of this waterfall seen by Wordsworth, another... symbolic interpretation, since the dream was yours that aspect of the dream relates solely to you - the symbolism of hair, etc. I presumably represent for you some Page 173 aspect of the Poetic Muse and also your interest in English (and French?) poetry, not surely to forget William Blake who was our first and remains an enduring link. So I would read your dream as suggesting that the Muse... dream splits it into two parts - the hair-element as relating solely to me and the you-me element as representing something more general. You write: "I presumably represent for you some aspect of the Poetic Muse and also your interest in English (and French?) poetry, not surely to forget William Blake who was our first and remains an enduring link. So I would read your dream as suggesting that the Muse ...
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