Robert BurnsBy: Damaris Hinojosa

Biography Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, on January

25, 1759, to a family of poverty stricken farmers. He began helping his father with farm work at the age of twelve.

The difficulty of the labor later had a crippling effect on his health.

He had little regular schooling and got much of his education from his father.

While continuing to do farm work, Burns began writing poetry, and his talents developed in a spectacular way. Many of his poems expressed his love of the country and its people.

In 1786, the first edition of Burns’ poetry, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, known as the Kilmarnock edition, was published. It sold out within a month.

His second edition of poems was published in Edinburgh in 1787. In 1788 he married Jean Armour, who bore him eight children. On the morning of July 21, 1796 Burns died in Dumfries, at the

age of 37. The funeral took place on Monday July 25, the day that his son Maxwell Burns was born.

YouTube - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns - Poetry Reading

A Red, Red Rose

O my luve's like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June;

O my luve's like the melodie

That's sweetly played in tune.

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.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi' the sun:

O I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve,

And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

TPCASTT Title: I think that the poem is

about giving a rose to a lover.

Paraphrase: My love is like a rose that’s sprung in June and like a melody that’s played in tune. As beautiful as you are, is how deep in love am I. And I will love you until the seas dry up, and the rocks melt with the sun; and I will love you still, for as long as I live. And goodbye my love but only for a while, because I will come again even if it was ten thousand miles.

Connotation: “o my loves like…” is repeated to emphasize that his love is special like a rose or a sweet melody. The poet uses similes to compare his love to a “Red, red rose” and “like the melodie that’s sweetly played in tune.”

He is saying that his love is beautiful like a rose, and sweet like a melody. Hyperboles are used to exaggerate the extremities that he would go to for his love.

Attitude: adoring, because he would do anything for her.

Shift: there are two shifts: the first is in the middle of the 2nd stanza where it says, “as fair art thou, my bonnie lass, so deep in love am I.” (shift) “and I will love thee still, my dear…” The shift is from expressing his love, to saying that he will love her forever. The 2nd shift happens at the beginning of the 2nd stanza, after he has been saying that he will love her forever, to saying goodbye.

Title: His love is like a beautiful rose.

Theme: If you love someone, then goodbye is not forever.

Symbol

Robert Burns was Born in Scotland, and many of his poems expressed his love of the country and its people.

What I have learned…

How to use easy bib to make citations easier.

How to correctly use MLA format.

TPCASTT helps understand the deeper meaning of the poems.

Robert burns is the national poet of Scotland.

There is a “Rabbie (Robert) Burns Day” that is celebrated every year on the poets birthday.