Song Ae Fond Kiss Flashcards
1
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Typicality for Burns
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- song form in Scottish dialect
- Scottish folk song
- focuses on parting forever giving greater emotional intensity
2
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Typicality of time
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- longing for lover
- sense of regret
- letting go/moving on
- sense of sadness/ despair
- depression- loss they’re struggling to deal with
3
Q
key quotes
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- warring sighs and groans ill wage thee
- grieves him…leaves him’
- dark despair around benights me
- naething could resist my Nancy
- Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure
4
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warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee
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- emphasis on sigh/groans = sense of loss.
- auditory= physical pain
- sf of battle/war
5
Q
Fortune grieves him.. she leaves him
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- rhyme= emphasises the finality of it
- sf of loss
6
Q
chearful twinkle lights me; dark despair around benights me
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- imagery of light and dark- metaphor for loss of hope
- emphasis on darkness that he feels juxaposes her as being a light
7
Q
naething could resist my Nancy
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- sense of no regret- salving their time together
- completely infactuated
- inevitablity
8
Q
peace, enjoyment, love and pleasure!
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- abstract nouns= emotions shes brought out in him
- exclamatory
9
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thou first and fairest, thou best and dearest.
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- idolosing her
- superlatives- enduring, no one else match upto her
- caesura emphasises emotions
