By Robert Burn
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• 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.”
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Burns was born in
Alloway, Scotland in
the year 1759
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• 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.
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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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• 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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Standard Verse Form
epistles
satires
epigrams
As all eighteenth
century poets
elegies
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• Rhythm is the pattern of beats created
by the arrangement of stressed and
unstressed syllables
Regular
Irregular
with a predictable
with an unpredictable
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• Meter is the regular rhythm, in a
predictable pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables
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By Robert Burn
1794
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• Based on a folk song Burns heard on
his travels, Robert Burns wrote his
poem “A Red Red Rose“ to be sung not
read.
• Burns completed the poem in 1794 in
an English dialect called Scots
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• Find the following in Burn’s poem
A Example of SIMILE
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• Find an example of HYPERBOLE
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• Find an example of Imagery
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• Find an example of Anastrophe
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• Find an example of PERSONIFICATION
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Asmya’fair
theart
thou,
gang
dry,
bonny
mylass,
dear,
O,Till
love
isseas
like
amyred,
red
rose,
And
fare
thee
weel,
my
only
love,
That’s
newly
June.
And
Sofare
rocks
deepthee
insprung
melt
love
amina the
I, sun!
Andthe
weelwi’
while!
O,
my
love
is
like
the
melody,
AndAnd
I will
lovecome
theeagain,
still,mymylove,
dear,
I will
That’s
sweetly
play’d
in
tune.
While
Tillitthe
a’were
the
sandsseas
gang
life shall
dry.2
run.
Tho’
teno’ thousand
mile!
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Q) After reading the poem, what do you
think the theme is?
Q) Do you think that beauty is part of the
theme?
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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…
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• Mood is about
setting
• Tone is about
personal feeling
• Tone is the
• Mood is the
emotional state of
emotional state of
the author
the reader
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Q) What is the Tone of “A Red, Red
Rose”?
Q) What is the Mood of the poem?
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