Preface:                                                                                                                                                                literary criticism has found itself as an important and independent branch. In established new horizons a numbers of scholars have emerged as critics and interpreted literature in order to help a common reader.                                                                                                                                                  I.A. richards and T.S. Eliot's are considered as the father of new criticism. I.A. Richards has contributed in the development of literary criticism by his  distinctive essays like his practical criticism, four types of meaning imagination and many other. At present we are concerned with his views on the imagination.                                                                                                       About writer:-.                                                                                                                                        " poetry is capable of saving us".                                                  - i.a. Richards.                    

Born: 26 February, 1893    

Died: 7 September, 1979.                                      Occupation: educator.                                          Nationality: English.                                              Place of birth: England.                                        Period: 20th century.                                            Awards: 1. Benjamin Franklin medal                His notable works:                                                - speculative instrument.            

                          - the philosophy of rhetoric.                                - Coleridge on imagination.                                                                                                                                                                   Ivor Armstrong Richards known as I.A. richards was an English educator, literary critic and rhetorician.  According to I.A. richards there are six different and distinct sense of the word 'imagination'.                                                                                                                              Six sense of Imagination :                                                                                                                      1. Production of imagination                              2. The use of figurative language                        3. The nerrower  sense                                          4. Inventiveness on imagination                        5. The sense of musical delight                            6. The scientific Imagination                                                                                                                1. Production of image:                                                                                                                                                                    The first concept of imagination is production of image. It is the basic as well as the most difficult part of the process of imagination. It has a sense of novelty and a sense of freshness with,                                                                                                1. Old and familiar object                                    2. More than usual state of emotion                  3. More than usual order ( not in usual presentation )                                                          4. It has power to delight                                                                                                                                                                The production of image of these four parts which can make it more effective and magical but actually it has production from the pure emotional state of our mind and heart.                                                                                                                  2. The use of figurative language                                                                                                                                                       people who naturally employ metaphor and simile in their speech especially when it is unusual kind are same to have imagination. This may or may not be accompanied by imagination in other senses. Metaphor and simile the two may be considered together have a great variety of functions of speech for example,                                   Shelley's " like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity".                                                                               He has awakened from the dream of life - shelley is only figurative language as the tool which leads to the imagination.                                                                                                                                              3. The nerrower sense                                                                                                                                                                   A narrower sense is that in which sympathetic reproduction of other people's state of mind, particularly their emotional state, is what is meant. You haven't enough imagination the dramatist says to the critic who thinks that his persons behave unnaturally. This kind of imagination is plainly a necessity for communication.                                                                                                                                      4. Inventiveness on imagination                                                                                                                                                Inventiveness , the bringing together of elements which are not ordinary connected in another sense.                                                      It has the power to modify a series of thoughts by and predominant thoughts and feeling talking into consideration Coleridge he considers poetics as essentail amongst all of other valuable characteristic poet is poet becouse of ,                                                                              1. The availability of experience                        2. Width of the field of reproduction                3. Completeness of unique response ( it should be naturally different )                                                                                                                                                      A poet unlike and ordinary person looks at the things with a different perspective poet has the terfere emotions combined into a stable dignity for a poet suppression are carried out beautifully and as a result the thought process is different.                                                                                         The selection of the topic by the poet should be out of the box, sometimes extreamly different from what a poet habitually do everything that a poet sees has that a poet sees has different perspective to it.                                                                                                                                       5. The scientific Imagination                                                                                                                                                 we have that kind of relevant connection of things ordinary thought of a different which is exemplified in scientific Imagination. This is an ordinary of experience in definite ways and for a definite end or purpose.                                                                                                                         6. The sense of musical delight                                                                                                                                                      He original formulation was Coleridge's greatest contribution to critical theory.                                                                        " The sense of novelty and freshness , with old and familiar object; a more than usual state of emotion, with than usual order."                                                                                                The sense of musical delight... With the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by someone predominant thought or feeling'- this are the gifts of imagination.                                                                                                             A poet is not nearly looking at the beauty , it's all about organizing them into a heighten experience. According to Coleridge,                   " The sense of musical delight is a gift of the imagination"                                                                                                                                                Impulses in poetry:                                                                                                                                  There are two ways in which impulses maybe organized.                                                                                                                                       1. By exclusion and inclusion                             2. By synthesis and elimination                                                                                                                                        A very great deal of poetry and art is content with organized development of comparatively special and limited experience with a definite emotion or emotions. For example emotions are  joy, pride, love, admiration and hope.                      There are three different modes,.                                    1. Melancholy ( tragic ).                                        2. Optimism ( positivity ).                                     3. Longing ( desiring ).                                                                                                              Structuring in terms of experience,.                          " Break, break, break"                                                          And                                                             " Ode to nightangle"                                                        Both the poetry is the different not because of subject but the difference is the relation of several impulses. In the first poem the set of impulse run parallel where as in the second poem there is extraordinary. It is believed that irony more often than not is a constant experience in poetry. It brings out much more facts of the personality than through any other defined emotion has to see all around in imagination. Some interesting is required, but the more you are impersonal the more you are completely involved.                                                                                                                                                    Tragedy and imagination:                                                                                                                       Pity- the impulse to approach ( method ).         Terror - the impulse to retreat                                                                                                                                          Combination of both pity and terror leads us to catharsis through which we recognize tragedy. Suppression is important for awakening of sense. The balance of tragedy is not in the structure but in response. It is not an indication that all's right with the world or that somewhere , somehow, there is justice, it is an indication that all is right here and now in the nervous system.