Ivor Armstrong Richards was a British poet and scholar. He was the pioneer in the domain of New Criticism. He was an English educator His works are:
1. The Meaning of Meaning – 1923
2. The Principles of Literary Criticism – 1924
3. The Practical Criticism – 1929.
He mainly talks about four kinds of misunderstanding:
1.Misunderstanding of the sense of poetry: Careless, Intuitive reading
2.Over-Literal reading: prosaic reading
3.Defective scholarship; inappropriate metaphor
4. Difference in meaning of words in poetry and prose (personification, Metaphors, etc.....)
His practical approach gave new path to literary criticism. In his methodology, a lot of importance is given to the words. He believed that poet writes to communicate and language is the means of that communication. Language is made of words and words carry four kinds of meaning: Sense, Feelings, Tone and Intention.
According to I.A.Richards language can be used in two ways, scientific use of language and the emotive one. Language of poetry is purely emotive, in its original primitive state. This language affects feelings. Hence we must avoid intuitive and over literal reading of poems. Words in poetry have an emotive value, and the figurative language used by poets conveys those emotions effectively and forcefully.
Narayan from the movie Mohra (1994). The song is written by Anand Bakshi and music composed by Viju Shah. Starring Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon. Music label Venus.
In this blog I have taken a song which has literally the opposite meaning when it starts.
टिप-टिप बरसा पानी
टिप-टिप बरसा पानी
पानी ने आग लगाई
आग लगी दिल में तो
दिल को तेरी याद आयी
तेरी याद आयी तो
जल उठा मेरा भीगा बदन
अब तुम ही बताओ साजन
मैं क्या करूँ
नाम तेरा मेरे लबों पे आया था
नाम तेरा मेरे लबों पे आया था
हो मैंने बहाने से तुम्हे बुलाया था
झूम कर आ गया सावन मैं क्या करूँ
टिप-टिप बरसा पानी
पानी ने आग लगाई
आग लगी दिल में तो
दिल को तेरी याद आयी
तेरी याद आयी तो
जल उठा मेरा भीगा बदन
अब तुम ही बताओ साजन
मैं क्या करूँ
डूबो दरिया में
खड़ा मैं साहिल पर
डूबो दरिया में
खड़ा मैं साहिल पर
तू बिजली बनकर गिरी मेरे दिल पर
चली आईसी यह पागल
पावैं मैं क्या करूँ
टिप-टिप बरसा पानी
पानी ने आग लगाई
आग लगी दिल में
जो तोह दिल को तेरी याद आयी
तेरी याद आयी तो छा गया
मुझपे दीवानापन
मेरे बस में नहीं
मेरा मैं मैं क्या करूँ
This song has two versions. In the first version it is sung by udit Narayan &Alka yangnik and it has picturized on Raveena Tandon &Akshay Kumar. In the second version it Is part of suryavanshi movie. In the new version the song has picturized on Katerina kaif Akshay Kumar.
Basically, this song represents the situation of a beloved on a rainy day. This song represents the inner emotion of the beloved. As we know that rain is often used as a metaphor for expressing the feeling of love. This song represents the powerful feelings of love in the heart of lovers due to rainy days. And their feelings become so powerful and they feel like their heart is on fire because of such emotions of love.
Problematic elements of this song
There is a problem in the first stanza when the writer used two opposite elements: water and fire . Water is an element which is used to stop fire so how can it be used in the same line of this song which creates problems for the reader to read a poem.
In the third stanza of the song writer also writes lines which creates problem to understand the poem lines like
जल उठा मेरा भीगा बदन
If the back of the body is wet then how it is fired can not be possible so it also creates problems to understand the song.
In the next stanza the lines like
डूबो दरिया में
खड़ा मैं साहिल पर
डूबो दरिया में
खड़ा मैं साहिल पर
So A person who is standing near the sea shore can drown under the sea.so it also creates problems to understand the meaning of the poem.
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