1. Literature
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Organized by Prof. MSc. Maura Xavier Garcia

2. A Red, Red Rose (by Robert Burns)
Glossary:
fair art thou (1.5): beautiful you are (arch)
bonnie lass (1.5): pretty young lady (Scottish expression)
a´(1.8): all
gang (1.8) go (Scottish)
sands (1.12): the sand in an hourglass which measures time
fare thee weel awhile (1.14): take care of yourself for a short
time (archaic)
Though it were (1.16): even if I were going.
Robert Burns (1759-1796) It was written as a song and
incorporates elements from several folk songs of the day.

3. A Red, Red Rose (by Robert Burns)
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 played in tune.

4. A Red, Red Rose (by Robert Burns)
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a´ the seas gang dry.

5. A Red, Red Rose (by Robert Burns)
Till a´ the seas gang dry, my
dear,
And the rocks melt wi´ the sun:
O I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o´ life shall run.

6. A Red, Red Rose (by Robert Burns)
And fare thee weel, my only
luve,
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand
mile.

7. • One of the most famous • Themes: love, regret
love songs associated
with Robert Burns, 'My
Luve's like a Red, Red
Rose' was composed
prior to 1794 when it
appeared in a collection
by an Edinburgh
composer named • Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/my_luve
Urbani. _is_like_a_red_red_rose /

8. • Part of the song's appeal is
its use of powerful, natural
imagery to convey a love
that is ever-lasting and
capable of surviving both
distance and time.

9. Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759
• in the village of Alloway, two miles south of • His increasingly radical political views
Ayr - Scotland influenced many of the phenomenal
• His parents, Willian Burnes[s] and Agnes number of poems, songs and letters
Broun, were tenant farmers he continued to pen, including such
• The works of Alexander Pope, Henry famous works as For a' that and a'
Mackenzie and Laurence Sterne fired Burns's
poetic that.
• Handsome Nell, for Nellie Kilpatrick, was his • The hard work a new job entailed,
first song. combined with the toil of his earlier
• Subjects: nature, drink and women life and dissolute lifestyle began to
• He fathered twins with eventual wife Jean take their toll on Burns's health. He
Armour died on 21 July 1796 aged just 37 and
• lover Mary Campbell (his Highland Mary). was buried with full civil and military
• Mary's sudden death and the sensational honours on the very day his son
success of his first published collection of Maxwell was born. A memorial
verse kept him in Scotland. edition of his poems was published
• At just 27, Burns had already become famous to raise money for his wife and
across the country with poems such as To a
Louse, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday children.
Night.
• Ae Fond kiss was also a very successful poem