A Red Red Rose By Robert Burn pg

A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burn pg. 530 Unit 3 1

Robert Burn • Robert Burns wrote more than six hundred poems. • He is considered the national poet of Scotland, and • According to the critic Raymond Bentman says, “Robert Burns is the first truly modern poet in British literature. ” 2

Robert Burns‘s Early Years Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland in the year 1759 3

Robert Burns ‘s Family • Burn’s father was a tenant farmer, and Burns worked as a plowboy. • Burn’s father tutored him and his brothers at home. • His father used whatever resources he had to provide additional education for his sons. 6

Where Burns lived 7

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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 9

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. 10

Burns' Style and Form Standard Verse Form epistles satires epigrams As all eighteenth century poets elegies 11

Rhythm • Rhythm is the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables Regular Irregular with a predictable with an unpredictable 12

Meter • Meter is the regular rhythm, in a predictable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables 13

A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burn 1794 pg. 530 Unit 3 14

A Red, Red Rose • Based on a folk song Burns heard on his travels, Robert Burns wrote his poem “A Red Rose“ to be sung not read. • Burns completed the poem in 1794 in an English dialect called Scots 15

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, ” 16

Figures of Speech • Find an example of HYPERBOLE “And I will love thee still, my dear, Till dry” “Anda’I the will seas comegang again, my love, Tho’ it were ten thousand 17

Figures of Speech • Find an example of Imagery “ O, my love is like a red, red rose, ” “Till a’ the seas gang dry” 18

Figures of Speech • Find an example of Anastrophe “So deep in love am I, ” 19

Figures of Speech • Find an example of PERSONIFICATION “While the sands o’ life shall run. ” 20

A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns Till As a’fare fair the seas gang dry, O, my loveart isthou, like amy red, And thee weel, my red bonny my rose, dear, lass, only love, That’s newly sprung And So the deep rocks inthee love melt am wi’in I, athe And fare weel June. sun! while! And I will love thee still, O, my love is like the And. IIwill mycome love dear, thee still, And again, my 21

Theme Q) After reading the poem, what do you think theme is? Love Q) Do you think that beauty is part of theme? Maybe loving beauty or loving someone beautiful. 22