A red Red Rose

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"A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns: He was a pre-romantic author. There was a break with the neoclassical style.

-Belief in the goodness of men by nature, so, we assume that the civilization corrupted men.

-This poem was a lyrical poem, with clear stanzas formed by quatrains (iambic tetrameter combined with iambic trimeter). This poem was writting to be sing, and to express the feelings of a poetic voice (it doesn't implie that this poetic voice was the author). The addresee was the poetic voice, on this case a man who is in love of a girl, and the addresseer was the girl. The elevated language doesn't exist and now, the language is poetic, but easy to understand.

-To make the poem, the author uses alliterations, hyperbathon, simple rhymes and the repetition of a sentence or the rhyme cause a refrain

-The rose is a symbol of passion, beauty: a poetical emblem of beuty (the ephimeral beauty) about the brevity of time.

My love is like a red, red rose -Alliteration -In the first stanza is describing the lady. with a paralelistic structure.

That’s newly sprung in

June ---------------------------------> -Simile metween lines 3-4

My love is like the melody: Melody: music in the purest way.

That’s sweetly played in

tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, ----------------------> Hyperbaton: lines 1-2: I am so deep in love as you art fair my bonnie lass

So deep in love am I :

And I will love thee still, my dear,-----> My dear= refrain -----> This stanza means that the beauty was so extraordinary, that his love is infinite

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, --------------------------> Repetition of the refrain.

And the rocks melt wi’ the

sun :---------------> Hyperbole and anaphora with the repetition of "and"

And I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life

shall run.---------------> Here there's a metaphor: He uses the sand to measure the time.

And fare thee weel, my only love,--------------------He's going to another place

And fare thee weel a while

! --------------------------------> Paralelistic structure with the repetition of the 2 first sentences.

And I will come again, my love,-----------------------> IT may seem an exageration, but it may be truth.

Thou’ it were ten thousand

mile.

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