Name:- Vala Jyotsna. T.

Roll no:-38.

Paper no:- 7.

Topic:- Six sense of imagination by I.A.Richards.

Paper Name: -Literary Theory and Criticism.

Email.id :- valajyotsna7@gmail.com

Submitted to :-

Maharaja Krishna kumar sinhji Bhavnagar Uni.

INTRODUCTION:-

SIX SENSE OF IMAGINATION.

According to I.A.Richards we can define the term “Imagination” at least in six distinction senses.

He discusses various meanings and concepts .The most important according to I.A.Richards, it is convenient to separate than before passing on to consider the work which is most important.

Imagination Meaning.mp4

SIX SENSE OF IMAGINATION(1).

Production of Image. (2). The

use of figurative language.

(3). The narrower

sense .(4). Inventiven

ess imaginatio

n.

(5). The scientific imaginati

on .

(6). The sense of musical delight .

(1). PRODUCTION OF IMAGE:-The first concept of imagination is very common and that is the production of

various image, usually and visual

image.

The production of various images

and visual images are the most

commonest and the most interesting

thing which is referred by imagination.

(2). THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:-Another concept of imagination is the use of figurative language people who naturally employ metaphor and smile especially when it is of an “unusual Kind” are same to have imagination.

They have great variety of function in speech.

This is the most common scientific use of metaphor . It is in imitative language and in poetry.

For Example:- “Shelley's Dome of many coloured glass”. It is only example which springs to mind some attitude of speaker to his subject or to his audience is using the metaphor as a tool of expression.

(3). THE NARROWER SENSE :-

A narrower sense is that in which sympathetic reproduction of other peoples state of mind.

Particularly their emotional state of mind is such imagination can be found in plays.

The dramatists says that the critic who thinks that is persons behave unnaturally.

“You haven’t enough Imagination”.

This kind of imagination is plainly a necessity for communication, bad plays to be successful require it as much as good plays.

(4). INVENTIVENESS IMAGINATION:-

E.g. :- “Dr. Cook outstrips Peary and out shines sir John Barbary”.

The crazy people will beat any of us at combing old ideas.

According to this “Edison” is said to have imagination and any fantastic romance will

show it in “Excesses”.

It is an another important sense . It brings the element together which are not connected.

Fifth concept according to A.I .Richards is the scientific imagination.

This is an order of experience in definitive ways and definite end or purpose not necessarily deliberate and conscious but limited to a given field.

The technical victory of the art are the examples of this kind of imagination.

(5). THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION :-

(6). THE SENSE OF MUSICAL DELIGHT :- Finally we come to the sense of imagination with

which we are here most concerned.

It is closely connected with Coleridge's concept of imagination.

It is Coleridge's great contribution to critical theory.

In his words imagination mean…………

“That sympathetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriate the name of imagination “.

It is a sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects a more than usual state of emotion with more that usual order.

The sense of musical delight and modifying a series of thoughts by some one pre-dominant thought or feeling these are gifts of imagination.

In describing the poet we laid stress upon the availability of the field and the completeness of the response which we can make compared with him the ordinary.

Man control nine-tenths of his spirit because he is an uncap able of managing them without confusion to point out that……..

“The sense of musical delight is a gift of the imagination”

Was one of Coleridge's most brilliants feat.

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