Abstract:
The song is a combination of literature and music. The poet creates a song by
embellishing the lyrics, the musician should manipulate the chords to create a
melodious and meaningful melody. For a successful song, the tune and lyrics
greatly matter. Thus, the poet’s attention should be paid not only to the taste of
sound but also to the taste of meaning. In general, the combination of semantics
is
unique in the poetic language. Sri Chandraratne Manawasinghe and
Premakirthi De Alvis are two famous songwriters who took Sinhala songs to a
new dimension. Representing two eras, they were able to add meaning to Sinhala
songs through poetic language in comparison with the past songs through radio
and film songs. They deserve recognition for firmly establishing a place for song
lyrics within Sinhala literary culture. The intent of the study is to investigate the
poetic language in the Sinhala song compositions of Sri Chandaratne
Manawasinghe and Premakirthi De Alvis based on their selected lyrics. Selected
lyrics based on their film & radio songs. This being a qualitative study, focuses
on documented resources as primary resources of the research. Therefore, text
analysis and literary appreciation will be used in relation to methodology to arrive
at the conclusion which establishes the view that their lyrical approaches place
them as the innovative and the path-breaking lyricists
in Sinhala songs
compositions. As secondary resources, books, scholarly documents, and
newspaper articles on their lyrics were used. The findings of the research prove
that the lyrics by Sri Chandraratne Manawasinghe and Premakirthi De Alvis
contain the taste of the sound, and the taste of the meaning and both of them are
creative and aesthetic lyricists
and it has been confirmed how much the use of
poetic language in a song affects the success of a song through the subjective
concepts of Eastern and Western traditional philosophers and poets.
