A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns As I get a chance to get myself into a wonderful poem A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns. This poem is not only unique, but the writer is one of the most famous poem writers of all time. A Red, Red Rose is one of Burns’s popular and colligated works. Robert Burns is a man of the mainly emotional temper; with passions. Burns has a rhythm and immediacy in verse, with concepts of eternal enduring love that appeal and intrigue the hearts and minds of many. Burns completed the poem A Red, Red Rose, in 1794 in an English dialect called Scots for publication in collections of traditional Scottish ballads. This love poem was exceedingly put together as four-line stanzas. The writer, Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His father, William Burns, was a farmer who seemed to have horribly bad business sense. His mother had a great store of tradition songs and ballads. Robert got very little education, since he so often had to help with the heavy work of farming, but he still read great, and that made up for a lot. In 1773, at the age of only fifteen, Robert composed his first song called Handsome Nell, in honor of the village blacksmith's daughter. He wrote his first poem, O Once I Loved, in 1774, and after that there was no ending him. Once Things got financially enhanced for the family in 1777, after they moved to a different farm, and Robert was able to read and write even more. In 1786 Burns proposed marriage to Jean Armour, who was pregnant with his twin sons.
Her parents rejected his propose and demanded financial restitution. As a result, Burns determined to sail to the West Indies and start a new life. Throughout his life, Burns wrote many famous love poems, including "A Red, Red Rose" and "Tam Glen." The poem A Red, Red Rose, was first publishing in 1794. The poem was written in ballad stanzas, the narrator is trying to contrast his first love with a blooming rose in spring and then with a melody, In trying to quantify his emotion and in searching for the great symbol to express the endless nature of his love. This poem is about the poet's love for a young girl. The writer uses two main similes to explain the beauty of his love. Burns says that his love is like a beautiful rose that's newly fresh. He also says that it is like a melody or song that is beautiful. So he starts the poem with a declaration of the beauty of his new love. It is also interesting that the speaker uses a simile with something from the natural world roses as an example. The poet continues on to say that he will love her till rocks are melted by the sun. As this is not a common occurrence, this could be taken to mean that his love will last forever. However, the poet continues on to bid his love goodbye and we see in this last stanza why he has been asserting his love in such strong terms. He is leaving, and he seems to want to convince his lady friend of his love before he disappears. The first stanza of the poem has an exact rhyme at the end of the second and fourth lines June and tune. His woman is so special to him that she reminds him of a red, red rose, not just a plain red rose. He uses two different similes for his love, the rose and the melody. She is so young and fair that he compares her to the first rose of the season in its purity and youth. His love is so sweet that she reminds him of a calming melody played in tune.
In this second stanza, the narrator reminds her and us that his love is undying no matter what happens around him. The third stanza he repeats the endearment my dear at the end of the first and third lines to emphasize his affection for her. He clearly states that he will be in love with her until certain occurrences happen in nature. The narrator links the first line of the third stanza with the last line of the second stanza by repetition. The narrator 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. The narrator 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. Replication suggests itself in the first and second lines, and hyperbole occurs in the last line. This is how the poem goes 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 play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie 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 luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

- Robert Burns

Overall, in A Red, Red Rose Burns is telling us what the essence of love is to him. The similes he uses are meant to demonstrate us the grandness of love. He compares his love to a rose and to a melody, showing us that love is beautiful and loved. Burns also shows us how love is not stable; that if it really is love, it will always be there no matter how near or far the two people may be from each other. In this wonderful poem, the rose signifies the heart which is red. The melody signifies the heart that this person feels dancing and feeling so wonderful. He will love this person till the oceans dry up. And no matter how much he loves this person he will love her forever and walk thousands of miles to be with her. Love is so deep with this man a love never ending. Seems that last phrase seems that he is saying farewell to his love as if he is dying or she has but He will be coming back to her again. He has lost her because of death. She was his only love. A Red, Red Rose is a depressing poem but in a bright outlook.