Song (ae fond kiss)
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- Created on: 17-05-18 21:23
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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 is a married woman
- engaged in passionate correspondence
- 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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