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BARBARA ALLAN ANALYSIS
Stacy Thompson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
We don’t know who the author
is.
Folk tale
GENRE OF POEM
ballad
INTERPRETAT ION OF POEM(WHAT HAPPEN)
This man named john Graeme sent someone
to bring Barbara Allan to him so he could tell
her that he is sick and dying. She rejects him
and then the bells ring and Graeme is died and
she tells her mother that her loved died for her
today and she will die tomorrow for him.
THEME
Always go for you want and never
give up.
DEFINING DIFFICULT WORDS
Sal. Shall
Dinna ye mind. Don’t you remember
Adieu adieu.
ALLUSIONS
“Since my loved died for me
today , ill die for him tomorrow”
A MORE MODERN TRANSLATION
A woman who rejects her lover because he
has “slighted” her and hurt her feelings.
Barbara’s lover dies of a broken heart from her
rejection of him, and after his death, she
realizes her mistake. That realization results in
her own death, also of a broken heart. Their
tragic love seems to live on, though, in the
symbolic intertwining of the rose and brier that
grow from their graves.