I. A. Richards : Figurative Language
( 1893 - 1979 )
Ivor Armstrong Richard called I. A. Richards known as famous literary Critic, an English educator and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundation of New Criticism a formalist movement in literary theory, which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self contained and self referential aesthetic object. His literary methodology of New Criticism describes in,
● " The Meaning of Meaning " ( 1923 )
● " The Principles of literary Criticism ( 1924 )
● " The Practical Criticism " ( 1929 )
♧ Four type of Misunderstanding :-
¤ Misunderstanding of the sense of Poetry : Careless, intuitive reading ( Ryme or regular syntax)
¤ Over literal reading - Prosaic reading
¤ Defective - Scholarship ; inappropriate metaphor
¤ Difference in meaning of words in Poetry and Prose ( Personification, Metaphor)
☆ Verbal Analysis of the Poem ☆
A Red, Red Rose
BY ROBERT BURNS
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
" A Red, Red Rose " is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1794 in Scots. It is based on traditional sources. Robert Burns inspired by Geologist James Hutton in his " Theory of the Earth " in 1789. They both were contemporaries and would have mixed in similar circles in Edinburgh. We can say that Burns may have been inspired by the concept of deep traditions.
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