Robert Burns Research Paper

Robert Burns, a Scottish poet and lyricist was born January 25 of 1759 and died July 21 of 1796. He is known for his writing on Romanticism poetry and his way of portraying feeling and emotion throughout his writings. Two of his famous poems A Red, Red Rose and Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon) are examples of romanticism, which was an intellectual movement that originating Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Burns’s poems are full of emotion such as happiness, sadness, anger and despair. Perception or the way we interpret or view something, the way you might feel about someone or something is portrayed when he describes his way of how he feels about his lover/lovers in both of these poems. Robert Burns used the art of poetry to incorporate Romantic ideas of imagination, perception and emotion.

Through his writing, he describes his never ending love and lust for the woman he loves, he has us use our own imagination to visualize his love for her as being new, like a flower that has just sprung: “O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in …show more content…
The speaker, the one watching the bug on the finely dressed woman, envisions the bug better being on someone who is dirty, ratty or poor. He portrays how he feels it should be when he says : “Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner,Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner,How daur ye set your fit upon her, Sae fine a Lady! Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner, On some poor body.”(Line 7-12) As he watches the bug crawl on the woman's hat, he questions why it's there, where it's going and how long it's actually been there. He perceives bugs as being dirty, that they don't belong on people who are clean, that the bug is incongruous also, This may have proven her hygiene to be poor, as a bug was carelessly crawling all over her. All he wants is the bug to be bothering someone of a lesser kind, but he knows he can't do anything but watch it move