Therefore, the poet’s intention is to foreground the element of time in love relationship and show the ambiguity inherent in it. Both the rose and the melody remind that they are short-lived, temporal, though sweet. A rose has thorns as love is never without its thorny sides. These images are conventional, but they also imply their opposite meanings. In the first stanza the poet compares love to a rose and then to a sweet melody: “O MY Luve ‘s like a red, red rose …O my Luve ‘s like the melodie” (Burns). This brief paper takes a look at the poem in order to discuss the important literary devices used in it. Though it has all the qualities of a traditional ballad, it attains a very complex nature, deserving to be read in the context of modern interpretations, like the theory of deconstruction formulated by Derrida. The poem begins with the conventional image of rose, a red rose, to represent love, and then it deviates into images like rocks and sands. “A Red, Red Rose”, written by Robert Burns, is a four stanza poem, with four lines in each stanza.
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