Program : I B.

A English
Semester : II
Poem : 05

Course & Code :

Indian Writing in English (18ENU04)
Google Classroom Code: 0mdtcob
News Discussion
Last Class Agenda
 Aurobindo Ghose
 Poems of Sri Aurobindo
 O Coil! O Coil!
Agenda
 O Coil! O Coil!
 Themes of his poems
 Idiom of the Day
 The Poem

O me! for pleasure turned to bitterest tears!

O me! for the swift joy, too great to live,
That only bloomed one hour! O wondrous day,
That crowned the bliss of those delicious years.
The vernal radiance of my lover's lips
Was shut like a red rose upon my mouth,
His voice was richer than the murmuring leaves,
His love around me than the summer air.
 The Poem

Five hours entangled in the coil's cry

Lay my beloved twixt my happy breasts.
O voice of tears! O sweetness uttering death!
O lost ere yet that happy cry was still!
 The Poem

O tireless voice of spring! Again I lie

In odorous gloom of trees; unseen and hear
The windlark gurgles in the golden leaves,
The woodworm spins in shrillness on the bough:
Thou by the waters wailing to thy love,
O chocrobacque! have comfort, since to thee
 The Poem

The dawn brings sweetest recompense of tears

And she thou lovest hears thy pain. But I
Am desolate in the heart of fruitful months,
Am widowed in the sight of happy things,
Uttering my moan to the unhoused winds,
O coil, coil, to the winds and thee.
 Theme of his
Poems

 Concept of involution and evolution of

consciousness
 Concept of the dynamic truth
 Spiritualization
 Divine fulfillment
 Keywords

 Vernal
 Twixt
 Entangled
 chocrobacque
 Questions

1. The themes of Sri Aurobindo are ________

2. O Coil! O Coil! Was written in the year
_________
3. Entangled means ________
 Idiom of the day

 Barking up the wrong tree – To be

mistaken, to be looking for solutions in the
wrong place.
 Next Class will be about

 Literary Genres
 Prose