The first Canto is found to be a very difficult by many genuine lovers of poetry. It is so because Sāvitrī is not like ordinary poetry, an aesthetic creation either of the higher vital or refined intellectual being. It is psychic, mystic and spiritual poetry and in the first Canto the sublime dominates. The very concepts and symbols used by the seer are so unfamiliar to the ordinary present-day mentality that one has to acquire a capacity to appreciate this high poetry. It is a question of cultivating taste. It is advisable that the reader should not try to interpret this poetry in terms of its intellectual content. It would be better instead to allow the vision to grow in intensity and clarity in his consciousness. He might find that with the help of this faculty of vision he is able to enter into the spirit of the poem much better than through the doors of dry intellect. The Symbol Dawn here is related to the Vedic goddess Dawn—Usha. Some acquaintance with the Vedic Dawn might help the reader to form a correct conception of the Symbol-Dawn of Sāvitrī…   more »