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

2. 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.”

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

4. A country of inspiring nature

5. He was born into a farming family

6. 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.

7. Where Burns lived

8. Inside his house

9. 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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. 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.
Burns completed the poem in 1794 in an English dialect called Scots

16. “O, my love is like the melody,”
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,”

17. Figures of Speech “And I will love thee still, my dear,
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!”

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

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

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

21. As fair art thou, my bonny lass, So deep in love am I,
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
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!
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.
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.

22. 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.

23. 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?

24. A Red, Red Rose
Listen to the poem sung, then answer the previous questions…

25. Mood & Tone Tone is about personal feeling Mood is about setting
Tone is the emotional state of the author
Mood is about setting
Mood is the emotional state of the reader

26. Tone & Mood Romantic Romantic, Melancholic, Optimistic
Q) What is the Tone of “A Red, Red Rose”?
Romantic
Q) What is the Mood of the poem?
Romantic, Melancholic, Optimistic