"Sweet Afton" is a poem by Robert Burns, who often writes about nature and entangles it very beautifully with a love story. This is a prime and wonderful example of his writings. To me, Afton (the river) is like life, with bends and surrounded by its high and low parts of the landscape (being the ups and downs of life). Mary is the love part of the story, sleeping in her elegance as life passes by, with her feet barely in life itself. And as she is dreaming, the stream only murmurs so she can be imaginative in what she hopes her life can be like.
"Sweet Afton" is a poem by Robert Burns, who often writes about nature and entangles it very beautifully with a love story. This is a prime and wonderful example of his writings. To me, Afton (the river) is like life, with bends and surrounded by its high and low parts of the landscape (being the ups and downs of life). Mary is the love part of the story, sleeping in her elegance as life passes by, with her feet barely in life itself. And as she is dreaming, the stream only murmurs so she can be imaginative in what she hopes her life can be like.