A RED, RED ROSE

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ROBERT BURNS

Born: 25 January 1759 Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland

Died: 21 July, 1796, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
Spouse: Jean Armour
Children: 12
Parents: William Burnes, Agnes Brown
Literary movement: Romanticism
- One of Robert Burns' most famous poems is "Tam o' Shanter",
published in 1791
- He is also famous for contributing to more than three hundred
songs in praise of love, friendship, and justice. work and fun
drinking parties. and tender sympathy, such as "Auld Lang Syne."
SUMMARY THE POEM "
A RED, RED ROSE"
- In this poem, the speaker describes his beloved with images that are
beautiful, fresh, and charming as a flower that has just bloomed. The love is
as sweet as a beautiful song played by a skilled musician.
- Meanwhile, it also represents a new relationship with all the freshness and
the excitement but the relationship doesn't need to be long -lasting. Then,
however, the speaker goes on to emphasize how long this love will last.
Here, the speaker uses three images to measure these feeling of loves.

- According to him, it will last till the seas and oceans going dry, till the
rocks melt and the earth has decayed. His love will endure until the end of
human life. He bids farewell by saying goodbye to his beloved for a while
and assures her that he will be back again. Even though they were apart
from ten thousand miles distance, hw will return to her.
 Love and separation are the major themes given in the

THEME poem. The poet has layered them with using metaphors of
natural objects. The poem is preeminent with the speaker's
love for his significant other. He adores her beauty and
expresses his immeasurable love for her. His love is so
deep-rooted that it will stay forever no matter what
happens.
MEANING OF EACH STANZA
In this stanza the speaker tells his beloved how beautiful
STANZA 1 she is. She is like a fresh red rose. Red rose is the symbol
of love and romance. It represents true love. Then he
compares her with nicely played melody.
O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June. O,

my luve's like the melodie,

Here he has used two similes --- the first, comparing his
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
love to a rose, and second, comparing her to a sweet
melody. Here we find a sincere praise of the poet for his
beloved's appearance and temperament.
 STANZA 2

In this stanza he expresses how deep his love is. He

As fair art thou, my bonie lass, will love her till infinite. He will love her till all the
So deep in luve am I, seas go dry. In the last line of the stanza he uses
And I will luve thee still, my Dear, hyperbole. It is a figure of speech that exaggerates.
Till a' the seas gang dry. Seas going dry is a hyperbole
 STANZA 3
Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun! O I
will luve thee still, my Dear, While
the sands o' life shall run.
As in the second stanza, in this stanza also the speaker
says how much he loves her. He will continue to love her
till the rocks melt by the heat of the sun. This also shows
his eternal love for her. He also says that his love will
continue while 'the sands of life shall run'. This means
till the end of his life.
 STANZA 4

In this stanza he says that although he has to

And fare thee weel, my only Luve, leave her for a while, he will certainly return to
And fare thee weel a while! And I her, even if he has to take a long journey (ten
will come again, my Luve, Tho' it thousand miles). In other words, he promises to
were ten thousand mile! love her how far he might go.
 FIGURES OF
SIMILE: compare his love with a “red rose” that
SPEECH “newly sprung in June” and a beautiful melody from
a song that is “ sweetly play’d” in a tune
“O my Luve is like a red, red rose”

In “A Red, Red Rose,” Robert Burns uses “O my Luve is like the melody”

simile and hyperbole to express the depth of his

love and to enhance the beauty and charm of
his poem.
HYPERBOLE: It is impossible to say that the seas
will dries up and the rocks are going to “melt”,
through that he wants to show that he is so deep in
love and his love will last forever
“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;”

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