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The style of this poem is representative of the poems of this period: the diction is formal and elevated, the rhythm measured and even; there is a technician's care for balance and harmony of parts and a remarkable strength of presence in the speaking voice.
Sri Chinmoy affirmed his commitment to art at this time in a poem entitled "0 Imagination" which begins:
Imagination, 0 Imagination!
You are my life's adoration.
You I shall not keep afar.
Imagination, 0 Imagination![4]
This dedication to imagination is based on Sri Chinmoy's belief that
Inside imagination, reality is taking form and shape. Inside imagination a reality is being created which is not yet visible to our naked human eyes. There imagination is becoming creation. What we call imagination is actually the precursor of creation.[5]
In a similar vein, Wallace Stevens confirms:
... the imagination is the next greatest power to faith.[6]
In another previously cited poem from My Flute, Sri Chinmoy implies that imagination is not all self-effort, that it may in fact be founded on an inner prehension of God's nature and that man's desire to create declares his wish to be like God:
