05第18讲RedRedRose.pptVIP

Selected Readingsin British Literature Unit 6 Robert Burns (1759 -1796) A Red, Red Rose Context A Red, Red Rose, was first published in 1794 in A Selection of Scots Songs, edited by Peter Urbani. Written in ballad stanzas, the verse - read today as a poem - pieces together conventional ideas and images of love in a way that transcends the low or non-literary sources from which the poem is drawn. In it, the speaker compares his love first with a blooming rose in spring and then with a melody sweetly playd in tune. If these similes seem the typical fodder for love-song lyricists, the second a