Figurative Analysis of
a song titled “Chaudhvin Ka Chand”
Movie: Chaudhvin Ka
Chand
Music: Ravi
Release Year:1960
Playback Singer -
Mohammed Rafi
Lyricist - Shakeel
Badayuni
I’m trying my best to
analyse figurative words used in this famous song which won Filmfare Award for
Best Male Playback Singer and Best Lyricist in late sixties.
This beautiful song
comprises total four stanzas.
Let’s try to translate
and analyze it on the basis of I.R.Richars’s
view on figurative language.
Are you
the full moon of the fourteenth night or the bright sun of the day?
Whatever you are, I
swear by the Lord that you are incomparable.
In
the first stanza, the protagonist tries to compare his beloved with the full
moon of the fourteenth night and bright sun using metaphor.
Your tresses are like
dark clouds sloping down your shoulders.
Your beautiful eyes
are like
wine-filled goblets.
You are
the wine that abounds with the intoxication of love.
In
the second stanza, the protagonist compares her tresses with dark clouds and
her beautiful eyes with wine-filled goblets using like (simile). In the last line of
this stanza he uses metaphor again.
Is your face like a
smiling lotus in the brook,
or like an
ode tuned to the music of life?
My beloved, you are a poet’s dream.
My beloved, you are a poet’s dream.
In the third stanza he
uses smiling lotus for her face (simile). He
also tells her as tune to the music of life and in last line he imagines her as
a dream character for every poet.
The current of your lightning
smile runs through your beautiful lips.
Even galaxies lay
prostrate with reverence in your path.
Only your youthful
splendour shines in this world of love and beauty.
In the final stanza, the
lyricist uses word lightning smiles as metaphor as well personification.
Galaxies lay prostrate with reverence in your path shows personification with hyperbole effect.
Of course galaxies aren’t live entity. He
says you are the only youthful splendour, who shines in this world of love and
beauty.
Whatever you are, I
swear by the Lord that you are incomparable.
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