My presentation on A Health, a ringing health...' with reference to I. A. Richards

1. ‘A Health, a ringing health…’ with reference
to I.A.Richards
Name: Vaishali Hareshbhai Jasoliya
Class: M.A.Sem.- 2
Roll No.: 28
Paper No.: 07 (Literary Theory & Criticism)
Enrolment No.: 14101028
Email ID: jasoliyavaishali@gmail.com
Year: 2015-16
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction of I.A.Richards
He was born in 1893.
He was educated at
Cambridge.
His career both as
teacher and Critic.
His full name was Ivor
Armstrong Richards.
He was pioneer in the
domain of New
criticism.

3. Four Sources of Misunderstanding in
Poetry

4. Poem : ‘A Health, a ringing health’
 In the poem in which
the poet celebrates the
eightieth birthday of
George Meredith.
 In Figurative Language
we find that words are
centre.
(1).The only concrete
simile in the octave is
the likening of the sea
to a harp-surely a little-
extravagant.

5. (2).The imagery is bad. The sea may sound like
an organ but it never bad the sound of a
harp.
 The harp-image is justified because its use
leads to the realization of effects aimed at by
the poet.
(3).One wonders if the poet has correctly
grasped the idea conywed in the description
of the harp.
(4). A far-fetched metaphor in which the sea is
pictured Harp and each string, besides being
mirthful, is made up of the lightning of spring
nights.

6. (5). The first definite clue to the poem’s true
character is the word ‘woven’.
Ex. – Since strings are spun or twisted, ‘woven’
must have been brought in for its higher
potency in releasing vague emotion.
(6). Common sense suggests that if the Dawn
were present the lightning of spring nights
would be inevitably absent.
(7). Since Dawn does not come into being till
the end of night, the strings and listener
could not exist contemporaneously.

8. Nature’s first green is gold
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So down goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

9. • "Nature's first green is
gold" ......................Nothing Gold Can Stay by
Robert Frost
• Frost's poem contains the perfect image of
Vermont's spring landscape. The
hardwoods lose their leaves in autumn and
stay bare through the winter. In spring, the
first green to appear is really gold as the buds
break open. The willows and maples have this
temporary gold hue. In only a few days, the
leaves mature to green

10. Figurative Language in Robert Frost’s
poem
 “Nature’s first green is gold” and “Her early leaf’s a
flower”
 Metaphor – Comparison something with another
indirectly.
“Her hardest hue to hold” and “So dawn goes down
to day”
 Alliteration – Repetition of initial letters or sound.
“So Eden sank to grief”
Hyperbole – Dramatic Exaggeration.