Transcript To A Louse Robert Burns - Mrs. O's Brit Lit Webpage

To A Louse
Robert Burns
Chanel Mickens
Uneque Belle
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Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin
ferlie?
Your impudence protects you
sairly,
I canna say but ye strut rarely
Owre gauze and lace,
Tho' faith! I fear ye dine but
sparely
On sic a place.
Now haud you there! ye're out o'
sight,
Below the fatt'rils, snug an' tight;
Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right,
Till ye've got on it --The vera tapmost, tow'ring height
O' miss's bonnet.
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,
Detested, shunn'd by saunt an'
sinner,
How daur ye set your fit upon
her -Sae fine a lady!
Gae somewhere else and seek
your dinner
On some poor body.
My sooth! right bauld ye set your
nose ou
As plump an' grey as onie grozet:
O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
Or fell, red smeddum,
I'd gie ye sic a hearty dose o't,
Wad dress your droddum!
Swith! in some beggar's hauffet
squattle:
There you may creep, and
sprawl, and spr
Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle,
In shoals and nations;
Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur
unsettle
Your thick plantations.
I wad na been surpris'd to spy
You on an auld wife's flainen toy:
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On's wyliecoat;
But Miss's fine Lunardi! fye!
How daur ye do't.
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O Jenny, dinna toss your head,
An' set your beauties a' abread!
You little ken what cursed speed
The blastie's makin!
Thae winks an' finger-ends, I
dread,
Are notice takin'!
O wad some Power the giftie gie
us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free
us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad
lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!
Summary
• This poem is about the class division of
the time but burns says that everyone is
the same as the louse also goes and sits
on the rich woman, everyone is equal and
she should get off her high horse.
Language
• The poem is written in a colloquial past
language, it is concrete, vague, and in
slang.
Tone
• The tone is very stern and straight
forward
• It is humorous in some stanzas yet
serious.
• It is ironic that in the poem Burns is
slandering the louse, but he is
comparing that louse to poor people.
Mood
• The mood of the stanza is melancholy and
angry.
• The emotions in the poem make the
reader feel low
• The intended purpose for the poem was to
make the readers feel useless and
incompetent
Imagery
• The imagery is a dirty and grimy feel
because of the fact the author is talking to
a louse.
• In the poem I hear anger the voice, I see
crawling bugs and blood.
• To a Louse is a symbolic poem of class
division. He is saying how everyone is the
same as the louse that goes and sits on
the rich woman.
Rhetorical Situation
• The author is speaking to a louse , and
stressing that the louse is useless and is
nothing but a free loader.
Rhyme
• The rhyme in To a Louse is exact. The
ending word in each sentence rhymes with
the previous.
• The poem uses a repetition of sounds. i.e.
sight,
tight;
right,
height.
Sound
• It repeats the sounds in each sentence.
• The last letters in each ended word have
he same sound.
Poem Structure
• The poem has a structured stanza. Robert
Louse was very organized with this poem.
• The rhyme pattern is a repetitive order of
rhyming words at the end of each
sentence.
Thanks For Paying Attention!
• Uneque Belle & Ma’Kenzie
Mickens <3