A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns

Transcription of poem with notes. Add your own too if you have anything else.

Romantic Period - look at Wordsworth Lucy poems as comparison.

O my luve's like a red, red rose,  > = beauty. '''passion. '''


 * That's newly sprung in June;  > =Summer, high point of year, signals still lots to come throughout summer

O my luve's like the melodie  > = 'Sweet order of things. Hard to pinpoint - more complicated'


 * That's sweetly played in tune.  


 * > = Shift to direct speech so it is more personal.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,  > = compliment


 * So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,


 * Till a' the seas gang dry.  > = Won't happen - Swearing devotion.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,  > = repetition - emphasis. Makes it seem neverending.


 * And the rocks melt wi' the sun:

O I will love thee still, my dear,


 * While the sands o' life shall run.  > = (Until he dies

And fare the weel, my only luve,  > =  Valediction - farewell


 * And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,


 * Though it were ten thousand mile.