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Beginning with a brief but most effective description of the cold outside , in two slow - moving lines giving the impression of ... he moves at once , in the third short line , to the contrasting image of himself huddled over the fire .
Beginning with a brief but most effective description of the cold outside , in two slow - moving lines giving the impression of ... he moves at once , in the third short line , to the contrasting image of himself huddled over the fire .
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lines with their internal rhyme , in which Burns , developing the sugges- tion that his fireside is not as comfortable as that of others may be , registers his complaint against the rich . The movement from the descrip- tion of a snowy ...
lines with their internal rhyme , in which Burns , developing the sugges- tion that his fireside is not as comfortable as that of others may be , registers his complaint against the rich . The movement from the descrip- tion of a snowy ...
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In the first , the pause after the opening four lines of compli- ment precedes the rising emotion of the next four lines , in which the poet , after taking a new breath , moves from compliment to passion . Similarly , in the second ...
In the first , the pause after the opening four lines of compli- ment precedes the rising emotion of the next four lines , in which the poet , after taking a new breath , moves from compliment to passion . Similarly , in the second ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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