One thing I struggle with in this project is how much to “modernize” the language and to what extent to keep it a little, well, old-fashioned. One answer might be that these are two separate projects: if I were editing Gitanjali,…
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Deleting poems
We come now to the first instance of deletion. Here is the original: Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs. I shall ever try…
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Changing the words themselves
There are three broad categories of change that I am making: the arrangement of the lines of words, the words themselves within an individual poem, and the deletion of certain poems. The first I explained here. Now we come to…
The matter of line breaks
The arrangement of the lines—that is, where the breaks occur—is not, I think a big deal. In other poems, perhaps; but not in these. These poems are written like speech, like the speech of ordinary, everyday people, marveling, wondering, waiting,…
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