1、a red,red roseThemeBurns clearly states and restates the theme: The speaker loves the young lady beyond measure. The only way he can express his love for her is through vivid similes and hyperbolic comparisons. . Red, Red RoseBy Robert BurnsWritten in 17941O my Luves like a red, red rose, Thats newl
2、y sprung in June: O my Luves like the melodie, Thats sweetly playd in tune. Summary, Stanza 1The speaker presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody. The speaker also uses repetition to echo his sentiments-my luves like in lines 1 and 3;
3、 thats newly and thats sweetly (pronoun, verb, and adverb combinations) in lines 2 and 4.As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a the seas gang dry.Summary, Stanza 2The speaker addresses the young lady as bonnie (pretty). Bonnie is derived from
4、 the French word bon (good). In the last line of the stanza, a means all and gang means go. This line introduces to the poem hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates.Till a the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi the sun:And I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o life shall
5、 run.Summary, Stanza 3The speaker links the first line of the third stanza with the last line of the second stanza by repetition. The speaker continues hyperbole in the second and fourth lines. He also again relies on repetition in the third line by repeating the third line of the second stanza. And
6、 fare-thee-weel, my only Luve,And fare-thee-weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve,Tho twere ten thousand mile!Summary, Stanza 4The speaker again addresses his beloved, noting that though he must leave her for a while he will return for her even if he must travel ten thousand miles. Repetitio
7、n occurs in the first and second lines, and hyperbole occurs in the last line. Fare-thee-weel means fare thee well.Analysis of Burns Poem A Red, Red RoseA Red, Red Rose, was first published in 1794 in A Selection of Scots Songs, edited by Peter Urbani. Written in ballad stanzas, the verse - read tod
8、ay as a poem pieces together conventional ideas and images of love in a way that transcends the “low“ or non-literary sources from which the poem is drawn. In it, the speaker compares his love first with a blooming rose in spring and then with a melody “sweetly playd in tune.“ If these similes seem
9、the typical fodder for love-song lyricists, the second and third stanzas introduce the subtler and more complex implications of time. In trying to quantify his feelings - and in searching for the perfect metaphor to describe the “eternal“ nature of his love - the speaker inevitably comes up against
10、loves greatest limitation, “the sands o life.“ This image of the hour-glass forces the reader to reassess of the poems first and loveliest image: A “red, red rose“ is itself an object of an hour, “newly sprung“ only “in June“ and afterward subject to the decay of time. This treatment of time and beauty predicts the work of the later Romantic poets, who took Burnss work as an important influence.
