TS Inter 1st Year English Study Material 2nd Lesson A Red Red Rose

Annotations (Section – A, Q.No. 2, Marks : 4)

Question 1.
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose.
That’s newly sprung in June?

Answer:

Introduction:
This couplet is taken from the poem, A Red Red Rose written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. It blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life.

Context & Explanation:
The poet begins by using a simile to compare his love to a rose. In other words, his love is like a flower that has just bloomed in June. His love is fresh and is bursting with life. His feelings are very profound.

Critical Comment:
It is an address to the speaker’s lover to whom he swears eternal love and loyalty.

Question 2.
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly pla’d in tune?

Answer:

Introduction:
This couplet is taken from the beautiful lyric A Red Red Rose, written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. It blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life.

Context & Explanation:
The poet compares his love to a melody that is sweetly played in tune. His love is a song that is sung just so right in fact that it’s kind of sweet. His feelings are very profound.

Critical Comment:
Here, the poet compares his beloved to a sweet melody which is nice to hear.

Question 3.
And I will Luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry?

Answer:

Introduction:
This couplet is extracted from the beautiful lyric A Red Red Rose, written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. It blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life.

Context & Explanation :
The speaker says he will love his bonny lass until all the seas dry up. The word ‘a’ is the shortened form of all. It is very common in Scots English. Gang does not refer to a group of people. It is an old word that means ‘go or a walk. The seas will probably never gang dry. So, the speaker seems to be saying that he will love his lass forever.

Critical Comment:
Here, the poet makes several promises to love his beloved forever.

Question 4.
And fare thee weel, my only
Luve and fare thee weel a while?

Answer:

Introduction:
This couplet is taken from the beautiful lyric, ‘A Red Red Rose’ written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. It blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life.

Context & Explanation :
The speaker says that he will love his beloved forever. Even after the seas get dried up, all the rocks melt, and the sands of life exhaust their love stays alive. It will last forever. For the present, the speaker says good bye only to return soon, though the journey is to a far off place the poem blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life.

Critical Comment:
The poet makes several promises to love his beloved forever.

Paragraph Questions & Answers (Section – A, Q.No. 4, Marks : 4)

Question 1.
How is the feeling of love expressed in the poem A Red Red Rose ?

Answer:

The poem A Red Red Rose is written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. It blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life. It is an address to the speaker’s lover to whom he swears eternal love and loyalty.

The speaker shares his romantic love for his beloved in this poem. His feelings are very profound. He compares his beloved with a fresh and beautiful rose sprung in June and to a sweet melody as well. He also makes several promises to live his beloved forever. He makes a promise that he will return to her life after their temporary separation. He promises to be with her, no matter how long the journey takes.
A Rose speaks of Love silently

Question 2.
Why is love compared to a Red Red Rose ?

Answer:

The poem, ‘A Red Red Rose’ is written by Robert Burns. He is one of the leading voices of Scotland in English literature. The present poem pictures his love for his beloved. His love is as beautiful as a fresh rose that has just bloomed in June. It is fresh and bursting with life. Here love is compared to a red rose because red rose has been an ancient symbol of love in almost all cultures. In this case, rose is newly spring in June. So, we can understand that his love is always at the starting point. Robert uses his rose with the meaning that it is very strong and passionate. It shows how strong is the speaker’s feeling.

Question 3.
What does the speaker promise in A Red Red Rose ? * (Imp, Model Paper)?

Answer:

The poem, A Red Red Rose, is written by Robert Burns. It is one of the best lyrics of English poetry. The speaker shares his romantic lone for his beloved. He promises different things to his beloned. He vones to love his beloved until the seas have dried up, the fire of the sun has melted the ice, and human life is over. He uses these examples to express his feelings. Thus, promises his eternal love to his borny lass and that no matter how far he might go, he will always return to her aside.

Question 4.
Describe the speaker’s devotion to his beloved as expressed in the last two lines of A Red Red Rose?

Answer:

Robert Burns poem A Red Red Rose pictures a young speaker’s love for his beloved. The poem blends the eternity of love with the mortality of life. Especially, in the last two lines, the speaker is completely devoted to his beloved. The has promised his sweet heart that he will return to her wherever he goes, no matter what the distance. Even if her relationship is ten thousand miles away, his love will never die. He will continue to love her. All in all these lines represent the immortality of his love for his beloved.

A Red Red Rose Summary in English

Robert Burns is a great lyrical poet. He became truly the national poet of Scotland. The last years of his life were fruitful in the lyrical songs that gave him not merely a national but a universal reputation. In the present poem “A Red Red Rose” he describes his love for his beloved. This is a simple, but sincere poem in which he pours out his intense love for his beloved. He describes his pious and ardent love in a heart-rending and picturesque manner.

The poet points out that love is newly emerging feeling fully bloomed like a pretty rose in lovely spring. It is filled with the warmth of June, the summer. He says that his love is fully grown, bloomed like a lovely rose, sprung in June. It is like a sweet melody played in a passionate tune.

He endows his emotion with a concrete form he sees vividly in his beloved’s image. He declares the immortality of his love. He says that his love will remain till the seas get dried, till the rocks melt with the sun, and till death snatches him away from his sweetheart.

Finally, he overcomes all his grief. It is because he realizes and convinces the beloved that this parting is not an end. And they will be united again after crossing the path of death covering a distance of ten thousand miles. Thus the ravages of time will fail to bring any change upon his pious feelings. He bids his beloved farewell physically. He bids it only temporarily as he is sure to get united with her immortally in the other world beyond the limits of life and death-the physical concepts. Burns very convincingly assures, his beloved that he will reach her through the distance between them were ten thousand miles, symbolically.

Meanings and Explanations

Melody (n) / mel / adi/ (మెలడీ) : sweet sounds, మధురగీతం , मधुर गीत
Bonny (adj) / bani / (బోని) : healthy looking, with glow of health, ఆరోగ్యాంగా అందంగా ఉన్న , कमनीय, रमणीय
Lass (n)/aæs/(ల్యాస్) : girl, యువతి , युवती, किशोरी
Art : are, ఉన్నారు, है, हैं, हो
Thou (pron)/ ðau / (దౌ) : you, నీవు, మీరు,, आप, तुम
Gang dry : get dried, ఎండిపోవుట , अदुश्य होना
Fare thee well : Good-bye, may god bless you, వీడ్కోలు , तुझे विदा
Sprung(v-pp) / spraŋ / స్స్పంగ్) : bloomed, వికసించిన, పూసెను,, खिला हुआ
Weel : well, ఆరోగ్యవంతమైన , स्वस्थ
Luve (n)/lav / (లవ్) : love, ప్రేమ, प्यार, प्रेम, मुहबत
Play’d : played, ఆడటం, खेलना