Study of Words with the help of I.A. Richards’s Figurative Language

Study of Words with the help of I.A. Richards’s Figurative Language

Title :- Vijali Ne Chamkare

Vijali ne chamkare motida parovo panbai,
Achanak andhara thashe ji
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji.

Janya re jevi yaado ajaan chey panbai,
Adhuriya ne no kehvay re,
Gupatras no khel chey atpato ne,
Atti re melo to samjay,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re,
Saja kevi jati ni jugti batvune,
Deepe padi dav beeji bhat re,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji panbai,
Teno dekhadu tamne desh re,
Ganga re sati amaj boliya re,
Tya nahi maya no charke lesh,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kad thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Analysis of words :-

                     As we all know that this is Bhajan rather then any ordinally song. This Bhajan is prepared and sung by Gangasati so first of all we have to understand this person to understand this Bhajan. 

Life of  Gangasati Panbai :-

Gangasati was a medieval saint poet of bhakti tradition of western India who composed several devotional songs in Gujarati language.

નામ :- ગંગાબાઇ ફહળુભા ગોહિલ

ઉપનામ :- સોરઠનાં મીરાંબાઇ

જન્મ :- 1846 – રાજપરા – પાલીતાણા

અવસાન :- 1894

માતા :- રૂપાળીબા

પિતા :-  ભાઇજી જેસાજી સરવૈયા

ભાઇ બહેન :- ચાર ભાઇ બહેન

લગ્ન  :- 1864 – સમઢિયાળાના ગરાસદાર કહળસંગ કલભા ગોહિલ (કહળુભા) સાથે; જ્ઞાતિના રિવાજ પ્રમણે લગ્ન સાસરે જ થયા.

સંતાનો :- એક માન્યતા – બે પુત્રીઓ – બાઇ રાજબા અને હરિબા , પાનબાઇ પિયરમાંથી સાથે આવેલી ખવાસ-કન્યા અને દાસી; બીજી માન્યતા- એક પુત્ર – અજોભા અને પૂત્રવધુ પાનબાઇ

વ્યવસાય  :- ઘરકામ અને ભક્તિ

પ્રદાન :- સૌરાષ્ટ્ર માં બહુ જ ગવાતા 51 ગીતો

જીવન  :- પતિ પણ ધર્મપરાયણ, બન્ને દંપતિ ભક્તિ ભાવ અને સાધુ સંતોની સેવામાં રચ્યા પચ્યા રહેતા. ગામનું ઘર સાંકડું પડતાં વાડીમાં ઝુંપડી અને હનુમાનજીની દેરી બનાવીને રહ્ય. ચમત્કારિક ઘટના બનતાં લોકો કહળુભા ની પૂજા લોકો કરવા લાગ્યા. આથી તેમણે જીવતાં સમાધિ લીધી. પતિના મૃત્યુ બાદ ગંગાસતીએ રોજના એક લેખે 52 ભજનો પાનબાઇને ધાર્મિક શિક્ષણ આપવા સંભળાવ્યા અને 53મા દિવસે પોતે પણ જીવતા સમાધિ લીધી. આ દુઃખ સહન ન થતાં પાન બાઇ એ પણ  જીવતા સમાધિ લીધી.

Analysis Of this Bhajan :-

                          This song is highly spiritual in understanding. We cannot understand this song at first listening. Here in this song highly metaphor and personifications used for devotees and gives spiritual moral to the audiences. Like “Other Bhagwat Gita”.

1.    Vijali ne chamkare motida parovo panbai,
Achanak andhara thashe ji
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji.

Here in this lines poet address to someone and gives indirect moral to readers or listeners.  We all know that this is impossible to make something in light of thunderbolt but here with the help of this metaphor she says that as a human being our duty is to pray Lord and make salvation but we passes our time in other west thing and suddenly our life ends so before that do something for salvation of your soul. 

2.    Janya re jevi yaado ajaan chey panbai,
Adhuriya ne no kehvay re,
Gupatras no khel chey atpato ne,
Atti re melo to samjay,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Here we can understand that here in this stanza Gangasati says about “Real Truth Or Philosophy Of God” that we can’t understand without leaving all the things of this mortal world. That what we have to understand is not known or unknown by us or by human beings. This all the things is not understand by fool person. Only those can understand who leaves these mortal things of this world. 

3.    Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re,
Saja kevi jati ni jugti batvune,
Deepe padi dav beeji bhat re,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Here in very first line Gangasati says that “Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re” means here she not says about any war or fight Medan ma means not that but she says that if we want to know all the souls or “Jeev” we have to come with pious soul in our body. We have to throw all the bad things around us. Then and only then we can understand this soul. 

4.       Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji panbai,

      Teno dekhadu tamne desh re,
Ganga re sati amaj boliya re,
Tya nahi maya no charke lesh,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kad thase ji,
Vijali ne..

And at the end in this last stanza Gangasati says to Pan Bai that how we get salvation that she says that “Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji” means here she says that this Indian thinking that Guru is more important than others because he makes path for us for meeting with God or for salvation.

Metaphors :- 

                   Here Ganga sati uses metaphor of thunderbolt to explain difficulties of life. With the help of this Bhajam she wants to convey this message that our “FINAl GOAL OF HUMAN BEAINGS”  is to pray God and to achieve salvation and get rest from this circle of life or circle of life and death. 

Conclusion :- 

                At the end we may say that wide form of literature can gives us this kind of highly spiritual and moral things in this kind of little songs or in Bhajans.

Self Observation Of Solitude ....

आखों में रहा दिल में उतरकर नहीं देखा,
कश्ती के मुसाफिर ने समंदर नहीं देखा ,
बेवक्त अगर जाउंगी सब चौंक पड़ेंगे ,
इस उम्र में दिन में कभी घर नहीं देखा,
जिस दिन से चली हूँ मेरी मंजिल पे नजर है ,
आँखों ने कभी मील का पत्थर नहीं देखा,
ये जो फूल है मुझे विरासत में ना मिले ,
किसी ने मेरा काँटों भरा बिस्तर नहीं देखा,
पत्थर मुझे कहते है मेरे चाहने वाले,
“मैं” मोम हूँ उसने मुझे छुकर नहीं देखा!
कश्ती के मुसाफिर ने समँदर नहीँ देखा ।
आँखो को देखा पर दिल के अन्दर नहीँ देखा ।
पत्थर समझते है मुझे मेरे चाहने वाले ।
हम तो मोम थे किसी ने छुकर नहीँ देखा । —

Free Without Freedom ....

મારી ચોતરફ
મેં કિલ્લો બાંધ્યો છે
મને મારી જાત થી બીક લાગે છે....
માટે જ સ્તો.......
(મને ખુલ્લું આકાશ બહુ જ આકર્ષે છે..)
રખે ને કોઈ આવે, ને મળે, ને ગમે....
ને અંદરની વાત જાણી જાય તો ???
બધા કહે છે:
શું ખૂટે છે તારે?
પણ, સાચું કહું!?
એક ફરિયાદ રહ્યા કરે છે..
પાપા એ
બધું જ આપ્યું
કરિયાવરમાં.....
બસ....
થોડું મારા હિસ્સાનું આકાશ પણ આપ્યું હોત ..........

My Childhood

Superb Poem !! Superb Poem...!!

My Childhood 

Ek bachpan ka zamana tha,
jisme khushiyon ka khazana tha;
chahat chand ko paane ki thi,
par dil titli ka deewana tha.
Khabar na thi kuch subah ki,
na shaam ka thikana tha;
thak haarke aana school se, par khelne bhi jaana tha.
daadi ki kahani thi, pariyon ka fasana tha;
barish mein kagaz ki naav thi, har mausam suhana tha.
Har khel mein saathi the, har rishta nibhana tha;
gum ki zuban na hoti thi, na zakhmon ka paimana tha.
Rone ki wajah na thi, na hansne ka bahana tha;
kyon ho gaye hum itne bade,
isse achha to woh bachpan ka zamana tha...

Short Learning Videos on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Short Learning Videos on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads 

 

• What are the basic difference between the poetic creed of 'Classicism' and 'Romanticism'?
• Why does Wordsworth say 'What' is poet? rather than Who is poet?
• What is poetic diction? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his Preface?
• What is poetry?
• Discuss 'Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud' with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed

Respected Sir,

                        As we discussed about Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads this all the videos help us a lot to understand the basic ideas of poetry that what is poetry, who is poet rather then what is poet and also about the language of poem that what should be the language of poem. 

                       First of all I want to clear this term that what is “Classicism” and what is “Romanticism”. Difference between this is that a romantic poem will be about love towards people while classical will be more old fashioned and be about other things. The romantic era was not about love at all. In fact it had nothing to do with romance of the conventional kind. It was imaginative and more related to democracy and nature than anything else. Had relations to human life, and was highly philosophical. It was most definitely not about love. The Classical age on the other hand was the complete opposite to the romantic age in some respects. It had no real interest in nature as it exists naturally. Satire and realism was present, as well as a strong union with politics. It was highly critical, unimaginative and intellectual as opposed to the spontaneity of the romantic age. The basic difference between the classicism and romanticism is that the former is based on intellect and the latter is based on imagination.

                       There is difference between Who and What. Generally we use that who is poet ?? means we connect poets identity with it that This person is poet or that person is poet like example Wordsworth is poet is answer of this question but when we speak What is poet ??? We cannot find answer of this question easily because this question ties with inner quality or strength of poet. That what qualities poet has to write some good poems and then he gives reply that poet is one who is a man speaking to man, endowed with more lively sensibility because everyone cannot create lively images in front of readers who real poets can do. 

                      From Wordsworth’s point of view Diction means choice of language, selection of words and arrangement of words with the help of emotions. He says that the language of poetry should be the language means language of day to day life who can understand by everyone but with the selection of proper words poet cannot use mean language or slang or wrong words for poetry. Language has power to create certain images in readers mind so use proper word so with the help of that word appropriate images can immerge for poetry. The word selected by the poet must fit to his imagination. If he is truly inspired, then his imagination will enable him to select from the language which is used by men in routine life.

                        According to Wordsworth What is poet,

He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.”

And poetry means:-

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". 

                                               In poetry we may find the idea of immediate truth and ultimate pleasure. Apart from meter and rhythm poetry is existence with the contradiction things. Poetry brings the whole soul of man, means in the poetry all the things are there that generally we may find in poem and important thing is harmony and arrangement of words. Poet is a man who is a genius, a special person, capable of re-articulating thoughts and feelings. He has a greater knowledge of human mind. With the help of this all the things we can say that “Poetry is the product of poet’s mind.”

                      Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud’ poem is written in very simple language. That’s why everyone can understand this poem very easily. Children also can understand this poem very easily that’s why this poem is in the syllabus of standard-  5 of English medium schools. And with the help of this we can say that language of this poem is very easy and exactly suitable for William Wordsworth’s poetic creed. In this poem as we can clearly see that the language used by him is simple one. The very first paragraph of the poem is written in the past tense and the last paragraph of the poem is written in the present tense. Means he was recollecting the spontaneous overflow in tranquility. He go to near to the nature and open his heart and start receiving and then he try to learn whatever he can and then create this wonderful poem.     

                                        Thank You ………