Keats’s sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a high mark in Romantic poetry. In the octave, the poet has travelled in the realms of gold, and one of them is the great property of Homer, a vast tract of living and vibrant land, the seer-poet holding the lordship in the company of the heroic gods and goddesses. Here is the gold of many and many-sided splendours, born from the womb of the celestial Muse herself. The sonnet describes the new wonder the poet has discovered. The awe experienced by him comes out most powerfully in the last line, “Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” But Aswapati’s new and marvellous creation is something different. It is a creation breathing in topaz radiance and has many worlds, the worlds of beauty, of love, joy, thought, will, knowledge, power, light, form, reality’s substance, all with the growing God-kind perfection everywhere. But their materialisation upon the earth must await the “veiled Transcendent’s ultimate decree”. In the House of the Spirit this new creation is ready but waiting for the veiled Transcendent’s decree. It comes in the form of a boon. That boon is the incarnation of the divine Savitri upon earth: “One shall descend and break the iron Law.” That shall be the precursor of the new creation manifesting in its deepening and widening glory.

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