What are the major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo?

The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. The contact of the Indian mind with Western literature is the most important and significant result of the British subjection over India. To quoteR.C. Majumdar, “ the preface of English education broke the hedge which had heretofore effectively shut India from the Western world …. English education opened theflood-gates of the Western ideas.” 1 The preface of the English language and English system of education inspired a big section of the clerisy to speak and write in English. They were fascinated by the power, inflexibility and beauty of the English language and turned to write creatively in English. A special artistic terrain intimate with Western Culture in which they moved and grew favoured their learning the language in all its niceties of erudite expression. With their jotting in English there came into actuality a unique erudite miracle, for “ the case of a pen of a dependent country espousing the language of his foreign master for creative purposes, is rather a rare bone.” The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.

 The jottings of Indians in English have been similarly designated by different scholars in the field. George Sampson reviews erudite workshop written in English by native Indians as‘Anglo-Indian’3K.R.S. The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Iyengar, the colonist critic of the Indian jotting in English, prefers to call it‘Indo-Anglian’4P.C. Kotoky calls it‘Indo-English’, whileC. Paul Verghese prefers to call it‘Indian Creative Writing in English’6 There has also been a disagreement about its place in English literature as well as in Indian literature. JamesH. Cousins remarked that Indo-English muses could neither add to English literature nor “ carry on the noble tradition of Indian literature in a foreign lingo, the illustration of Devi Sarojini not- opposing.” The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.

 Indo-English Poetry has been growing gradationally since the morning of the nineteenth century to the new poetry of Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel,P. Lal and Pritish Nandyetc., but “ our critical performance in the interpretation and evaluation of Indo-Anglian literature is still largely an unaccomplished task.” 8 JamesH. Cousins,G.T. Garratt, George Sampson,T.D. Dunn and some others have tried to assess Indo-English Poetry in their own way. A number of Indian pens have also studied the different aspects of The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Indo-Englishwriting.Sri Aurobindo’s poetry stands a class piecemeal in Indo-English poetry and offers compass for critical reassessment. George Sampson has appertained to Sri Aurobindo as “ more notorious as an exponent of Indian nationalism than as a minstrel.” 9 The poetry of Sri Aurobindo has been responded to in three ways; one that shows absolute ignorance about Sri Aurobindo as a minstrel, as in an composition on Indian literature in Cassell’s Encyclopaedia of Literature, Vol. I (1953) which refers to Toru Dutt and Aru Dutt and also to Sarojini Naidu, but doesn't mention Sri Aurobindo. Also, there's the appreciation of his poetry by his votaries full of reverential praise, and eventually there's the denouncing review condemning Sri Aurobindo’s poetry as‘blurred and resilient sentiment’which is the‘ utmost dangerous thing that infects our poetry moment’.K.R.S. Iyengar has made a substantial and balanced donation to Aurobindonian review. He realises that a new kind of poetry like Sri Aurobindo’s “ demands a new intelligence in the philanthropist as well as in the pen.” The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.  To quote him “ without question, Sri Aurobindo is the one unconstestably outstanding figure in Indo-Anglian literature. Tagore, no mistrustfulness, holds a similar position in ultramodern Bengali literature, though Anglian literature can claim him as one of its own unique reflected glories. But Sri Aurobindo wasn't simply a pen who happed to write in English, but really an English pen, nearly as important as say-so, a George Moore, a Laurence Binyon or aW.B. Yeats.11, English was no lower than his mama- lingo and his belief that “ Numerous Indians write better English than numerous educated English- men,” 12 is unstintingly proved by his own jottings.

The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.

The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Throughout his long career, amid all the numerous-faceted achievements he noway abandoned his first love, poetry. He has given us poetry — lyrical, narrative, dramatic, grand, which, in volume and in variety, in volume and in quality can be compared with the work of the topmost muses who have amended the lyrical literature of the world. But he's not a extensively- known minstrel, incompletely because his end wasn't success and particular fame, but to express spiritual verity and experience of all kinds in poetry. He tried to use the English lingo for the loftiest spiritual expression. He realised that “ the expression of church in the English lingo is demanded and no bone can give the real stuff like Easterners and especially Indians.” 13 It was his verified view that since English language has a‘ inflexibility and rigidity,’it had a lesser eventuality of development for the expression of the spiritual verity of the New Age. In writing his poetry he constantly tried to realise this eventuality. There can not be any doubt about the worth of his poetry, which in its outbursts of spiritual alleviation and vision, achieves the utterance of the Mantra. The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.

The major issues in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.  After the Collected Runes and Plays his runes were published in book form — Runes, History and Present (1946), Last Runes (1952), Further Runes (1958), Savitri, including the author’s Letters on the Poem (1954) and now all his runes, banning Savitri, are published in one Volume Collected Runes (1972). With the publication of his poetry a wider erudite public had an occasion to know Sri Aurobindo, the minstrel.K.D. Sethna’s‘The Lyrical genius of Sri Aurobindo (1947) was the first book simply devoted to the critical evaluation of Sri Aurobindo’s poetry 15 and since also numerous scholars are attracted to the study of his poetry and erudite genius. There are the workshop of Nolini Kanta Gupta,A.B. Purani andK.R.S. Iyengar who had done remarkable service in the field and who had the honor of being the associates of Sri Aurobindo. It's also significant to note that among Indo-English muses Sri Aurobindo is the most favourite of exploration scholars in English literature.