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A Red, Red Rose

By

Robert Burn

pg. 530Unit 3

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Robert

Burn

Robert Burns wrote more

than six hundred poems.

According to the critic Raymond

Bentman

says, “Robert Burns is the first truly

modern poet in British literature.”

He is considered the national poet of Scotland, and

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Robert

Burns‘s Early Years

Burns was born in Alloway

, Scotland in the year

1759

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A country of inspiring nature

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He was born into a farming family

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Robert

Burns ‘s Family

Burn’s father was a tenant farmer,

and Burns

worked as a

plowboy

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Burn’s father tutored him and his brothers at home. His father used whatever resources he had to provide additional education for his sons. 6Slide7

Where Burns lived

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Inside his house

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Robert

Burns ‘s Education

Burns grew up poor but well-read. He taught himself to read French.

And began writing poetry in Scottish dialect.

As an adult, he was unsuccessful in making a living at farming

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Burns' Style and Form

During the last ten years of his life Burns mainly wrote lyric

poems as songs in Scottish dialect.

Burns also wrote many poems from a female point of view, often reflecting the perspective of women suffering from betrayal or loss of love.

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As all eighteenth century poets

Standard Verse Form

epistles

satires

epigrams

elegies

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Burns' Style and Form Slide12

Rhythm

Rhythm is the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

Regularwith a predictable

Irregularwith an unpredictable12Slide13

Meter

Meter is the regular rhythm

, in a predictable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables13Slide14

A Red, Red Rose

By

Robert Burn 1794

pg. 530Unit 3

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Burns completed the poem in 1794 in an English dialect called Scots

A Red, Red Rose

Based on a folk song Burns heard on his travels, Robert Burns wrote his poem “A Red

Red

Rose“ to be sung not read.

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Figures of Speech

Find the following in Burn’s poem

A Example of SIMILE

“O, my love is like a red, red rose,”“O, my love is like the melody,”

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Figures of Speech

Find an example of HYPERBOLE

“And I will love thee still, my dear,Till a’ the seas gang dry”

“And I will come again, my love,Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!”17Slide18

Figures of Speech

Find an example of Imagery

“O, my love is like a red, red rose,”

“Till a’ the seas gang dry”18Slide19

Figures of Speech

Find an example of Anastrophe

“So deep in love am I,”

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Figures of Speech

Find an example of PERSONIFICATION

“While the sands o’ life shall run.”

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O, my love is like a red, red rose,

That’s newly sprung in June.O, my love is like the melody,That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

A Red, Red Rose

By Robert Burns

As fair art thou, my bonny lass,

So deep in love am I,

And I will love thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.2

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun!

And I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only love,

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my love,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!

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Theme

Q) After reading the poem, what do you think the theme is?

Love

Q) Do you think that beauty is part of the theme?

Maybe loving

beauty or loving someone beautiful.

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Tone & Mood

What is the Tone of A Red, Red Rose?

And can we find the tone?Then what is the Mood of the poem? How can we find it?

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Listen to the poem sung, then answer the previous questions…

A Red, Red Rose

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Mood is about setting

Mood is the emotional state of the reader

Tone is about personal feeling

Tone is the emotional state of the author

Mood

&

Tone

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Tone & Mood

Q) What is the Tone of “A Red, Red Rose”?

Romantic, Mel

ancholic

, Optimistic

Q) What is the Mood of the poem?

Romantic

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