True Love In Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose

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Burns “True Love” Robert Burns’ A Red, Red Rose explains his love for his “bonie lass” repetitively. Throughout his poem, he gives many similes and metaphors to compare the great love for this mysterious young woman making it obvious on what the theme is. This theme is simply love. He repetitively exclaims his love to the women throughout the entire poem. Burn was born in Scotland during the time in which it was becoming part of Europe and the European culture was spreading in Scotland, also. (Shmoop) He also grew up as a farmer, but was very intelligent giving him his ability to write beautiful poetry. This is relevant because of some of the language that is used in this specific poem, such as, “Luve” (line 1,3,6, 13), “bonie” (line …show more content…
The line clearly compares his Luve, love, to not just a red rose, but a red, red rose. The use of his repetition on red confirms how deep his love is to this woman. This introduces the repetition that he uses throughout this poem. Then he goes on to compare his love to being “newly sprung in June” declaring the love is fresh and young like the newly sprouted flower. (line 2) This also illustrates the love is just new, which may be stating that the speaker, who is speaking to his love, may be in the honeymoon …show more content…
Burns had many lovers in his short-lived life, hence his nickname being Young Lover. (Electric Scotland) His saying goodbye to his “love of his life” could be because she may have been one of his many mistresses and it is time for him to go back to his wife and children. Burns, then again, uses repetition to say goodbye but then adds that it will be for a while. (line 14) Reassuring her, he says that he will come back even if he must walk ten thousand miles. The speaker displays his affection to his lover in many ways throughout this poem. Going back to what was said previously about the different ways love can be perceived, the final lines show, to some extent on why love may hurt. When one loves someone else, they want to spend all the time with whom they love. For whatever the reason being on why the speaker must leave, having to leaving her obviously hurts

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