Making a Religion of Secular Spirituality from Self Experience:

A Comparative Analysis on the Poetry of Aurobindo and that of Wordsworth

Abstract

Despite infinite differences which make every man an island, there is one transcendental reality; that is spiritual reality, which makes all one.

This paper aims at examining the universality in the select poets’ experience in their realization of ultimate truth. It traces unique spiritual experiences of William Wordsworth and Sri Aurobindo as dealt by them in their poetry, and analyses the features which ascertain the universality of their experience. Various spiritual elements found in the select poems are the subjects of close examination in this paper.