Song (ae fond kiss)

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  • Song (ae fond kiss) - Robert Burns
    • almost left his wife for his lover (agnes 'nancy' McLehose)
    • sentimental poem in song form
      • heartfelt emotion is commonplace in this genre, an outpouring of love is apropriate
    • written in rhyming couplets
    • explores pain of parting and lost love and is addressed to Agnes
      • engaged in passionate correspondence
        • Agnes is a married woman
          • the relationship was kept secret
    • Agnes left Scotland to Jamaica to attempt a reconciliation with her husband
    • The speaker asks for one kiss form his loved one before they part forever
    • intense love he feels for her and reasons his broken heart would have been lessened  had her loved her less intensely
    • He bids her farewell and her happiness for the future
    • Iambic tetrameter and rhyming couplet
    • repetition of stanza
    • changes from first person to the third person
    • fortune and hope are personified

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