A Red, Red Roseby Robert Burns (1794)

Monday 11th October 2021

Learning Objectives

• To identify a range of techniques used by the poet to achieve effects

• To understand and respond to the poem

Previous Learning

• See next slide!

Future Learning

• To study different kinds of poetry as an introduction to more complicated forms of poetry.

• To use our poetry study to learn how to write analytically.

Starter Quiz

1. What is a quatrain?

2. What is a cliché?

3. Give an example of a cliché.

4. What does the phrase carpe diem mean?

5. What is imagery?

6. What is a simile?

7. What is a metaphor?

8. How many lines does a sonnet have?

9. What meter is a sonnet written in?

Symbolism

What do red roses symbolise? Mind map your ideas.

Word of the day

•Simile – highlighting the similarity between two things by using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Examples:

1. The girl swam like a fish.

2. He crept into the room as quiet as a mouse.

3. Today I feel as fresh as a daisy!

How are these examples effective?

A Red, Red Rose

We are now going to read through the poem.

What can you say about:

• Subject =

• Speaker =

• Form =

• Meter =

Challenge: Can you find an example of a simile?

Glossary

•Luve = historic version of love

•Bonnie = beautiful

•Lass = Scottish word for a young woman

•Gang = Scottish word for go

•Fare thee weel = goodbye

Responding to the poem

The core focus of the poem is for the narrator to declare his affection for his “Luve” and describe how deep his love is. The opening line is

one of the most famous and romantic similes in poetry.

You will now annotate the poem.

We will then feedback our ideas as a class and make some annotations on the board. You will need to copy down your annotations carefully.

Can you find any examples of:Similes, metaphor, symbolism, repetition, imagery.

Responding to the poem

In the first line of the poem, Burns uses the simile ‘my Luve is like a red, red rose’ to compare his emotions to a beautiful flower. By emphasising that the rose is ‘red’, he shows the reader that his love is passionate and strong.

Copy and annotate. What is successful about this response?

Question:

How does Burns use language to demonstrate that he is in love?

1. Identify 3 quotations that you can say something interesting about.

2. Write 3 sentences, embedding the quotations and saying something interesting about them.

3. Label and annotate your sentences carefully.

Star Time!

• Substitute words with more suitable replacements.

• Take things out and remove unnecessary details.

• Add things in or go into more detail.

• Rearrange the order of ideas and structure of the writing.

Always check your spelling and punctuation and make at least 3 visible changes.

Plenary: Poetry is often symbolic…

Write down your own definition of what love is.

Beneath that, draw an image of what you imagine love would look

like if it existed as something that we can see and touch.

1. I think that love is…

2. I think that love would look like this: