ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’A Red, Red Rose’ is one of the most famous of all Scottish love songs, collected by Robert Burns in 1794.

Detailed explanation-2: -“A Red, Red Rose” is a poem composed by Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. It was first published in 1794 in a collection of traditional Scottish songs set to music. Burns’s poem was inspired both by a simple Scots song he had heard in the country and by published ballads from the period.

Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson dutifully set “A Red, Red Rose” to Gow’s “Major Gordon” as per Burns’ instructions and published it as song number 402 in the fifth volume of Scots Musical Museum in 1797.

Detailed explanation-4: -In this poem the speaker declares the intense love he feels for another. He compares his love to a rose and insists that his love will be everlasting. After indicating an impending separation, the speaker concludes by insisting that his love will endure while the lovers are apart.