I.A.Richard's Figuratively Language

Figurative Language

                                     by I.A. Richards

Introduction  :

In criticism if we remember some important and well-known critics then we must remember I.A Richards, in full Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was born Feb. 26, 1893, Sandbach, Cheshire, Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Cambridge shire), English critic, poet, and teacher who was highly influential in developing a new way of reading Poetry that led to the New criticism and that also influenced some forms of reader-response criticism.

   

 Songs with figurative Lanage :

When we hang our lyric tapestry upon the breeze and sculpt the air into poetic phrasing, our laces are bound to get tangled in the winds of change. Wait, what was that? That was figuratively speaking, using poetic metaphors, similes, and expressions to bend the language to suit our message. These songs are almost always beautiful to the ears, even if they're daunting to the com-

Pension 

Film song lyric  :

Richards constructs this theory on the base of like or dislike of reader and he uses two approaches for this  theory.

pragmatic : 

Basically pragmatic means to deal with cause but Richards uses it in different way. He concedes it as knowledge.           

  Analysis :

In this song poet is praising the beauty of the girl he likes. He tells that her skin is like silver and her hair are like gold. The way she passes from became full of flowers and her soft footsteps can change fortune. If she touches stone it becomes the diamond.                     

  I.A. Richards says “The chemist must not require that the poet writes like a chemist not the moralist, not the man of affairs, nor the logician, nor the nor the professor that he writes as they would. The whole trouble of literalism is that the reader forgets that the aim of the poem comes first and is the sole justification of its means. We may quarrel frequently we must, with aim of the poem, but we have first to ascertain what it is. We canon legitimately judge its means by external standards which may have .