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I. A. RICHARD’S IDEA OF SLEEPING METAPHOR VS LIVE METAPHOR

ABSTRACT

According to I. A. Richards function of a work of art is to transfer an experience or to communicate an emotional idea. For this successful communication certain conditions need to be fulfilled both on the part of reader and the poet. The efficacy to ensure effective communication on part of a reader as explained in Practical Criticism includes avoiding barriers of communication. In the same manner, a poet must possess several characteristics among which inevitable is the command of metaphor. In 1920s, Cambridge critic, I.A. Richards proposed that language is not a signalling system rather it is the instrument of all human development. A metaphor, according to Richards, “is the omnipresent principle of language.” This paper attempts to read I. A. Richards’ metaphors and how use of metaphor may be taught to understand the language that constitutes our world.

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