The ill-lighted mansions of our thought

Re: Whitman’s Views on Shakespeare: Some Clarifications by Sarani Ghosal (Mondal) by RY Deshpande on Sat 10 Mar 2007 03:35 PM PST Profile Permanent Link

Hi Sarani, Your excellent study related to Whitman and Shakespeare. To put it in the Aurobindonian perspective you say:

"The poet of Savitri himself experiences the Shakespearean world in Book II, Canto IV of the epic, the world of the soliloquies: sensations, stabs, edges of desire, passion’s leaps, the casual colloquy of flesh with flesh, the ill-lighted mansions of our thought etc."

Can you please explain this a little more in detail, drawing from the works of the two poets, in fact from all the three? Thanks RYD