My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose

Robert Burns

25.01.1759 in Ayshire, Scottland

home education -> Dalrymple Parish School

with 15 first intrest in poetry

performed for special occasions

good profit: Anthology of poems

Fist love: Mary Campbell

Affair with Elizabeth Paton -> bore his fist child

Love affair with Jean Armour - difficult realationship but marriage in 1788 ( bore him 5 Children)

1790 poem "Tam o Shanter" - was offerd and appointment

1792 membership of the Royal Company of Atchers

1795 The Royal Dumfries Voluneers

death. July 1796

His Writing

own experiences

refelctions of feelings and view of nation and folk

general information

a song in Scots from 1794

based on traditional sources

often published as a poem

tone

celebration of love -> positive tone

melancholy -> the speaker is leaving his beloved

setting

schottisch moors

analysis

alliteration: a r ed, r ed r ose

simile: (l. 1) --> love is like a rose (young and new), but not longlasting

(l. 3) --> love is like a melody (sweet, longlasting)

symbols: rose and red --> love

repetition/anaphora: (l. 8-13) "Till all the seas go dry"

(l. 20-22) "Tho' 't ten thousand mile" ---> big distance

hyperbole: (l.10) "Till all the seas go dry" ---> very unlikely ---> endless love

(l. 14) "And the rocks melt with the sun"

metaphor: (l. 14) "And the rocks melt with the sun" = sunset

(l. 16) "While the sands of life shall run" = hourglass ---> love will not be weakened bei time

tone: joyful and enthusiastic

metre: jambic trimetre and jambic tetrametre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-PF2kt2jg