Haven’t you ever wanted to read a romantic poet from someone form Scotland? I’ll be honest when I heard romantic I thought it would have been about love. Now you see, I was completely wrong, Robert Burns made a poet, and it was a about some rich lady. Sounds a little interesting doesn’t it? Well you see Burns loves to start his poems off nice and simple, then boom, you get hit with something complex. Robert Burns named one of his famous poems, To a Louse. What is a louse? Looks like you’ll just have to continue reading on to find out. There are three most important messages from To a Louse. To start off, imagine yourself in Burns shoes. You are at church, but church had just started. You are sitting in the second row and a lady comes in late, …show more content…
You see, rich people back then thought they were hot stuff, they had money, they had food, they didn’t have to work as hard, and they didn’t have to break a nail. The lady in the bonnet finally sits down but she sits in the front, now why wouldn’t she just want to sit in the back considering she was late for church? She wants to make and entrance and boy did she do just that. When she finally sat down Burns was just looking at her just trying to find something about her that made her so “beautiful”. While he was examining her he came across the bonnet. He noticed something on her bonnet, and what do you know, it a louse. A louse is lice but plural, so when he spotted the louse he began to think to himself, why is that she has lice, aren’t rich people supposed to be clean and not have anything of that sort? Burns starts to talk to the louse and asks why? Why …show more content…
In my personal opinion, I’d think she was disrespectful. But as what Burns means is she is rich and she can do just as she pleases. Imagine Burns making observations of this lady. He realizes that she thinks she’s something or someone special. But in reality, she is just like everyone. She has her flaws, just like everyone, were all equal. You know we often don’t think about what people really see of us. Wouldn’t it be cool to see ourselves as others see us? Don’t you wish you had that ability? Why? I personally would want to see how people see me. Sometimes I feel like I rub off as mean. If I could see what people really seen me as, id change for the better. For example, a race is a good darn picture. I’d want to know how people feel about my race. I’m Mexican a lot of people tend judge by the race that you are. I don’t know if anyone looks at me different because of my race and it would be nice to find out. Sometimes I wish I were white and rich, they just seen to have it all together. Now my point is, wouldn’t that lady in the bonnet want to see what others are thinking of her? I would and she should
Romanticism is a revolt against rationalism. The poets and authors of this time wrote about God, religion, and Beauty in nature. The romantics held a conviction that imagination and emotion are superior to reason. One such author is William Cullen Bryant, he wrote the poem Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood. This poem uses many literary devices, and has a strong message to portray to the reader.
The novel shows how the rich can often shirk their own responsibilities, and do unethical things in the interest of self-preservation. Daisy hits Myrtle with Gatsby’s car and doesn’t even stop. She never feels a personal responsibility to...
In Burn’s poem about To a Louse, Burns is sitting in the church. This girl, who is very wealthy as noted by her clothing, shows up to the service late. This was probably done to draw attention to herself and she sits down in front of Burns. Burns notices something, this absurdly rich woman in this church has lice! Here is what Burns had to say to that, “It wad frae monie a blunder freeus and foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait was lea’e us and ev’n devotion!” (Lines 45-48, Page 739). What we can pull out from this is a sense of pride in knowing how a rich person was able to get an annoying pest such as
People always say never judged a person by their cover, yet some of us still do it without even trying sometimes. I have done this on multiple occasions without really trying to judge a person. I once had an experience where I was trying out for a new club team and I saw this girl who looked really mean and scary because of the expression on her face. I always thought if I ever talk to her she would be mean, but one practice we started to talk and she wasn’t at all the person I thought she ways. It turns out that she is a nice person who just takes soccer very seriously. This just shows that we can have a certain opinion on someone by their looks, but they may be completely opposite from the way they appear.There’s this book call “Freak the Mighty” which has a good way of showing the theme of not judging a person
Robert Burns was a famous writer. He wrote two famous poems called, To a Mouse and To a Louse. In the poem to a Mouse, the mouse's home is destroyed by a plow in the middle of winter. In the poem to a Louse, a lady at church has a louse on her and a man sits there and watches it crawl around on her. These two poems have a deeper meaning than what the author is just writing about. In the poems, To a Mouse and To a Louse by Robert Burns, express three messages.
In my opinion, Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is an excellent example of a Romantic point of view. Thoreau successfully conveys his Romantic ideas through his literature, and makes clear where he stands.
Mention 3 characteristics of Romantic style of poetry. Romantic poems often highlight the importance of nature, giving it a magical and powerful significance. Romantic poems give value to one’s individual emotions and experiences, allowing him/her to express his/her thoughts freely (individualism) Romantic can often be about a struggling hero who perseveres through a journey despite the constraints.
“To a Louse” The author Robert Burns is one of the romantic poets in our textbook. Robert Burns likes to do word pictures so you could imagine what’s going on. He also like to get things to simple to complex. Burns is from Scotland and is a poet.
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'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 play'd in tune." If these similes seem the typical fodder for love-song lyricists, the second and third stanzas introduce the subtler and more complex implications of time. In trying to quantify his feelings - and in searching for the perfect metaphor to describe the "eternal" nature of his love - the speaker inevitably comes up against love's greatest limitation, "the sands o' life." This image of the hour-glass forces the reader to reassess of the poem's first and loveliest image: A "red, red rose" is itself an object of an hour, "newly sprung" only "in June" and afterward subject to the decay of time. This treatment of time and beauty predicts the work of the later Romantic poets, who took Burns's work as an important influence.
In his introduction to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, M. H. Abrams attempts to overcome these difficulties by identifying the 'five cardinal elements' of Romantic poetry. According to Abrams, Romantic poetry is distinguished by the belief that poetry is not an "imitation of nature" but a "representation of the poet's internal emotions". Secondly, that the writing of poetry should be "an effortless expression" and not an "arduous exercise". The prevalence of nature in Romantic poetry and what Abrams calls "the glorification of the ordinary and the outcast" are identified as two further common elements, as is the sense of a "supernatural" or "satanic presence" (Abrams, 2000, pp. 7-11).
The Romantic Period was a time in which music and poetry talked about love, nature, and the good of being human. Different poets like Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge made poetry that will live on in literature forever. The Romantic period didn’t only affect Britain. It affected the entire world
First, let’s give a little bit of overview about the British and American romance definitions. The British defined Romanticism as “a fascination with youth and innocence as well as a questioning of authority.” Also, “changing tradition for idealistic purposes and an adaptation to change.” p. The American poets defined Romanticism as “a school of thought that valued feelings and intuition over reason.” p. 143. “A Journey away from the corruption of civilization and the limits of rational thought and toward the integrity of nature and the freedom of imagination.” p. 142. American romance also showed a great respect to youth and innocence, just like that of the British. One of the very active British poets of this time, William Blake, wrote a very good poem called “The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence”, and the following is a quote from the poem, “Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm,
William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is an ideal example of romantic poetry. As the web page “Wordsworth Tintern Abbey” notes, this recollection was added to the end of his book Lyrical Ballads, as a spontaneous poem that formed upon revisiting Wye Valley with his sister (Wordsworth Tintern Abbey). His writing style incorporated all of the romantic perceptions, such as nature, the ordinary, the individual, the imagination, and distance, which he used to his most creative extent to create distinctive recollections of nature and emotion, centered on striking descriptions of his individual reactions to these every day, ordinary things.