5/24/2023 0 Comments Burns red red rose![]() ![]() This repetition, this anaphora, emphasizes the speaker’s sentiment. ![]() The phrase “Till ‘a the seas gang dry” appears twice in the poem, once in Line 8 and once in Line 9. If the speaker will love his “dear” (Line 7) until all the seas dry up, then he will be loving her forever. Currents will always move water from one ocean to another. Barring catastrophe, there will always be weather patterns to create rain to refill the seas. When the speaker claims he will love his “bonnie lass” (Line 5) until the oceans go dry, he is expressing an impossibility. This symbolizes the inexhaustible devotion and passion the speaker feels for his beloved. Their depths are unexplored and unknowable. The seas represent vastness and endlessness. When the speaker professes his love for his beloved, he hyperbolically states that he will love her “ill a’ the seas gang dry” (Line 8). Since the significance of the rose and music are addressed in the “Poem Analysis” of this guide, this section expounds on some of the other symbolism in Burns’s poem. ![]()
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