Anonymous By Bonny Barbara Allan
Anonymous (Traditional Scottish Ballad) Bonny Barbara Allan After reading the poem I decided to go ahead and write my essay on it. This poem really spark my interest because the poem itself had a lot of meaning but at the same time it also told a story just like what a song would do. If the story was about something amazing, it would be considered an epic story. If the story, that was told is something sad or usually about relationship then it would make the story a Ballad. This poem to me is a ballad, it has so many characteristic of a ballad. The poem starts right off with “When the green leaves were afalling, That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country, Fell in love with Barbara Allan.(Allan)” Barbara was the women that he had once
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Martin’s Day, November 11.(Allan)” this verse here paints a picture for the reader to let them know that it’s autumn and the symbolic reasoning is that death is approaching, the writer underlined that feeling with. “When the green leaves were afalling,(Allan)”. Reading this poem you get feeling that two people who love each other but can’t be together because of society and social class. “He sent his men down through the town,5 To the place where she was dwelling:(Allan)”. When John sent his men down to go get Barbara Allan you get a sense of his social status. Also the word “down” in this stanza could symbolize that he lives above the rest of the people in the city. “Oh haste and come to my master dear, Gin° ye be Barbara Allan.(Allan)”. Once the servant finds Barbara, they ask her to come with them to go see their master because he is ill. After seeing John , she tells him, that “Young man, I think you’re dying(Allan)”. “O it’s I’m sick, and very, very sick, And ’tis a’ for Barbara Allan(Allan)”. He said that the reason why he is dying because that he is in love with her, but she responded by saying that he didn’t want anything to do with her and that he had rejected her before. That all he wanted was to have a good time with his friends and drink,”said, don’t you remember “When ye was in the tavern adrinking, That ye made the health° gae round and round, toasts And slighted Barbara Allan?”(Allan). ”He turned
Martin’s Day, November 11.(Allan)” this verse here paints a picture for the reader to let them know that it’s autumn and the symbolic reasoning is that death is approaching, the writer underlined that feeling with. “When the green leaves were afalling,(Allan)”. Reading this poem you get feeling that two people who love each other but can’t be together because of society and social class. “He sent his men down through the town,5 To the place where she was dwelling:(Allan)”. When John sent his men down to go get Barbara Allan you get a sense of his social status. Also the word “down” in this stanza could symbolize that he lives above the rest of the people in the city. “Oh haste and come to my master dear, Gin° ye be Barbara Allan.(Allan)”. Once the servant finds Barbara, they ask her to come with them to go see their master because he is ill. After seeing John , she tells him, that “Young man, I think you’re dying(Allan)”. “O it’s I’m sick, and very, very sick, And ’tis a’ for Barbara Allan(Allan)”. He said that the reason why he is dying because that he is in love with her, but she responded by saying that he didn’t want anything to do with her and that he had rejected her before. That all he wanted was to have a good time with his friends and drink,”said, don’t you remember “When ye was in the tavern adrinking, That ye made the health° gae round and round, toasts And slighted Barbara Allan?”(Allan). ”He turned