ए मेरे कवि दोस्त

 I.A Richardson introduced four kinds of Meanings in poetry.

1. Sense is what is said, or the ‘items’ referred to by a writer.

2. Feeling refers to emotions, emotional attitudes, will, desire, pleasure, displeasure and the rest. When we say something we have a feeling about it, “an attitude towards it, some special direction, bias or accentuation of interest towards it, some personal flavor or colouring of feeling”. Words express “these feelings, these nuances of interest”.

3. Tone is the writer’s attitude to his readers or audience. The use of language is determined by the writer’s ‘recognition’ of his relation to his readers.

4. Intention is the writer’s aim, which may be conscious or unconscious. It refers to the effect that he tries to produce. This purpose modifies the expression. It controls the emphasis, shapes the arrangement, or draws attention to something of importance.

In his “Principles of Literary Criticism” chapter 34, he discusses the theory of language and the two uses of language. According to I. A. Richards language can be used in two ways,

 the scientific use and the emotive one.

Richards introduced Four types of misunderstanding while reading poetry.

Misunderstanding of the sense of poetry: Careless, intuitive reading. Like just considering rhyme or irregular syntax.

Over-literal reading – prosaic reading

Defective scholarship- inappropriate metaphor

Difference in meaning of words in poetry and prose- don't understand the use of Personification, Metaphor etc."

My poet friend" - Nawazuddin Siddiqui 

 Mere Kavi Dost Vaqt Aa Gaya Hai

That from poetry circles and groups 

Be free and protest in the middle of the road

Your poetry my poet friend

To meet your beloved and to part with him

The house was empty after his departure

The story is tired of talking

The country is emptying of values

Rudeness destroys morality

The value of has been sold

Calling journalists children of Randi 

It's been a debate 

The last answer

Farmer's decline and builder

The speed of the growing stomach has become the same

The grain feeder is eating the pill

Scattered on our streets

Blood came from the blisters of his foot 

There is a stigma on the head of our city

Even seeing your children hanging

That is for our children 

Food growing will not stop

Our selfishness will leave us 

Some parts of humanity in us

So we will ask a question

Will not eat food 

When we read about their suicides 

In the sewage pipe of Azad Hindustan 

Dalit dies of suffocation

Shops of hatred, in the battle of religions 

Innocent girls are sacrificed

It has become a cheap tool of politics and the dry leaves of payment placed outside the big bungalow of the leaders, in front of the big garden, in front of the big gate, do not move.

And his pony, before every question, the bugle of development plays so loudly that half the people become deaf and the rest of the question is forgotten. 

Ye kaisa daur hai, Charo tarap hai crowd, directionless-thoughtless-fierce, knife in hand,-stone-torch, cutting-breaking house and pressing sound 

The voice that asks the question – that robs the minister of his peace, keeps a watchful eye on his communal tongue.

Mere Kavi Dost, Lokantra ko phi seh karana hoga apna प्रोजोग से लोगो से, पर लोगो, लिखे लोगो

Once my poet friends recite the same poem together and paste that poem like a time bomb outside every fort in which the leader sitting inside makes policies that how to buy all the newspapers, How to sell the forest for the price of grass! How to declare the killing of a journalist as a Naxalite

The time has come for Kavita to stop being the watchman of the king and become the watchman of truth, the time has come for Kavita to be free from the pages, stagger across the wall from the library and protest on the middle road.

Waqt aa gaya hai mere kavi dost, waqt nikla raha hai If questions are not asked today then there will be no answers tomorrow.

 That poem "Mere Kavi Dost" is written by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and that poem deals with such a problems of Nation, where poet personified Poem to let it be free of such a glorified things like love and separations of lovers.

Poet says that there is only solution for any political problem - To abuse Journalist that some of them are responsible for not making truth in front of people.

The sufferings and generosity of farmers is disrespectful for citizens that thought they are suffering they are not stopping growing crops. women, subalterns are only tools for politicians that they are no longer interested in makin them at the good position, builders or industrial leaders are growing their wealth and farmers are being poor.

If we are having enough self respect then we'll go on the strike for their justice and ask questions, questions that can make politicians uncomfortable.

Savage Pipe is a metaphor here that it is not the duty of Dalits only but they are still suffering for one and another reasons.

Even when questions are asked their sycophants sing the tune of development that some of the questioners will go deaf and remaining will forget the question.

Poem should stand for the Truth inspite of praising rulers. If today we don't ask the question we won't find answer at anytime and no one ever gets inspired of asking the right question.

Problematization of the poem:

1. H ere in the poem, first stanza says that the poem has tired but one should keep in mind that it is not the poem who is tired.

2. "Ignorance has sold morality for junk"

Morality and immorality are two opposite abstract things that cannot sell each other at least not in the price of scraps.

3. "हमारे शहर के माथे पर कलंक है" That sentence is for the every one living in the city which is having stigma for their actions directly or indirectly.

4. poet says that republicey shall be aware of that it is For people, Of people and by people....that should be considered as necessity of "people" to be aware of republic that it's the matter of public. 

5.  Poet has used the word "Raja" that poem should stand for the truth rather than the king in the contemporary time it can be replaced with leaders of many fields.

If one is reading in Totality with each meaning in the direction of the poem it's no longer problematic to understand.

At the zenith of the thought poem is trying to make readers and poets to be aware of the condition if one is aware then he or she shall try to make another aware by speaking or writing inspite of praising rulers and singing the songs of love and other emotions.

Here is the video of that poem

Here  I found another contemporary poem, which is also dealing with the same  idea.