To A Louse Robert Burns

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To A LouseRobert Burns

• Chanel Mickens
• Uneque Belle

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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.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.

• 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.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.

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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!

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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.

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Language

• The poem is written in a colloquial past
  language, it is concrete, vague, and in slang.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Rhetorical Situation

• The author is speaking to a louse , and stressing
  that the louse is useless and is nothing but a
  free loader.

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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.

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Sound

• It repeats the sounds in each sentence.
• The last letters in each ended word have he same
  sound.

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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.

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Thanks For Paying Attention!

• Uneque Belle MaKenzie Mickens lt3