To a Loose Robert Burns

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To a LooseRobert Burns

• Jacqueline McAwesome and Jennifer DaBomb

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About the Author

• Date Of birth
• -Jan. 25, 1759
• Date of death
• -July 21, 1796
• Where is this poet from?
• -Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland

• Things that happened During This Time
• In the 1750s the word nickel was created.
• 1775 Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
  Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
• 1776 David Bushnell invents a submarine.
• 1780 Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal
  eyeglasses. Gervinus invents the circular saw.
• 1783 The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air
  balloon. Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel
  roller for steel production.
• 1786 John Fitch invents a steamboat.
• 1789 The guillotine is invented.
• 1792 William Murdoch invents gas lighting. The
  first ambulance.
• 1795Francois Appert invents the preserving jar
  for food.
• 1796Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.

What Kind of writing did he do? -Angry or
compassionate, sentimental or satirical, romantic
or bawdy What is going on historically and
politically in his culture during his lifetime?
How does this affect or influence
his writing? -He was a rebel against politics
and religion so this would change how he wrote to
more satire view. Class was still very important
and religion ruled.
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Original poem Vs. Translation

• Ha! Where are you going, you crawling
  wonder?Your impudence protects you sorely,I can
  not say but you swagger rarelyOver gauze and
  lace,Though faith! I fear you dine but
  sparinglyOn such a placeYou ugly, creeping,
  blasted wonder,Detested, shunned by saint and
  sinner,How dare you set your foot upon her
  -Such fine a lady!Go somewhere else and seek
  your dinnerOn some poor body

• 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.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 dinnerOn some
  poor body.

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• Off! in some beggar's temples squatThere you
  may creep, and sprawl, and scramble,With other
  kindred, jumping cattle,In shoals and
  nationsWhere horn nor bone never dare
  unsettleYour thick plantationsNow hold you
  there! you are out of sight,Below the falderals,
  snug and tightNo, faith you yet! you will not
  be right,Until you have got on it ---The very
  topmost, towering heightOf misses bonnet.

• Swith! in some beggar's hauffet squattle There
  you may creep, and sprawl, and sprWi' ither
  kindred, jumping cattle, In shoals and nations
  Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle Your
  thick plantations.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.

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• My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose ouAs
  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!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.

• My sooth! right bold you set your nose out,As
  plump and gray as any gooseberryO for some
  rank, mercurial resin,Or deadly, red powder,I
  would give you such a hearty dose of it,Would
  dress your breech!I would not have been
  surprised to spyYou on an old wife's flannel
  capOr maybe some small ragged boy,On his
  undervestBut Miss's fine balloon bonnet!
  fye!How dare you do it.

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• O Jenny do not toss your head,And set your
  beauties all abroad!You little know what cursed
  speedThe blastie's making!Those winks and
  finger-ends, I dread,Are notice takiing!O
  would some Power the gift to give usTo see
  ourselves as others see us!It would from many a
  blunder free us,And foolish notionWhat airs in
  dress and gait would leave us,And even devotion!

• 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!

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What Does this Mean?!

• This poem is written about how a man at church
  sees a woman sitting with a grand hat and he
  admires her for being so dignified and what he
  perceives as being wealthy. He then notes a louse
  on her hat and is outraged that something so
  horrible could be on something that the poem sees
  as unworldly. He then curses the bug and
  questions the ways of life almost, until the lady
  turns around and what he saw before as so
  beautiful turn into something plain and common
  with her name Jenny and common lifestyle suddenly
  the poem turns more pleasant and accepting.

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• What type of language does this poem do?

• What Is he saying!

• This poem is written in Scottish slang the poem
  is also written in a mocking tone that is used to
  question the classes of the time and god. The
  poet uses very direct bold word chooses to get
  his point across that at the time would have been
  quite scandalized. These word chooses put a vivid
  picture in the readers head of the outrage and
  humor felt at the time.

• crowlin ferlie- a crawling horror.
• creepin, blastit wonner- creeping, blasted wonder
• Gae- Go
• hauffet squattle- temples squat
• Spr- scramble
• fatt'rils- falderals
• Bauld- bold
• smeddum- powder
• Flainen- flannel
• Droddum- breech
• Abread- abroad
• frae monie- from many

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Who is speaking and to whom?

• The speaker is a man that believes in class and
  order.
• He is speaking to a louse and a woman who he
  assumes is rich.
• They are in a church and he is speaking to them
  because he is outraged that the louse is on the
  woman.

• The relationship between the reader and the
  speaker is the reader is overhearing a
  conversation between the man and the rich woman.

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Sound

• Rhyme Scheme is AAABAB
• Alliteration
• shunn'd by saunt an' sinner
• This poem contains Cacophony.
• When he is yelling at the louse is an example

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Tone and Mood

• He is saying that this louse shouldnt be on this
  woman because she is so high up in class that she
  shouldnt be touched. God takes a role in this
  because if you were high class you were blessed
  by God. They were seen to be too good for disease
  and dirt.

• It is angry, humorous and sarcastic
• He is angry about the class system. He shows it
  through it this humorous and sarcastic poem.

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Figurative Language

• Simile As plump an' grey as onie grozet
• Metaphors
• Louse is the dirty grime and poor of society
• Woman is the rich that is blessed by god and
  shouldnt be touched

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Structure

• It is in standard form
• It has Stanzas
• Stanza- an arrangement of a certain number of
  lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a
  fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a
  division of a poem.

• Its end rhyme scheme is AAABAB
• It is within the line (at the end) not stanza by
  stanza