A Red,Red Rose was written by the great farmer poet of Scotland,Robert Burns.This love poem has been recited by people for more than two centuries.The poet praised his lover's beauty and expressed his love to her with enthusiasm.This paper will analyze this immortal love song from the points of phonological patterns,figure of speech and cohesion to help readers know it better.
Cohesion theory was proposed by Halliday and Hasan in 1976,and then developed by them in 1985.Through the analysis of cohesive devices of the famous speech I have a Dream from the aspects of grammatical cohesion,lexical cohesion and parallelism,this paper proves that it not only functions as a device to make the text more compact,but could make the text more expressive and persuasive.
