The works by Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott display the view and ideals of the romantic period of literature. Although Scott wrote "Lochinvar" in couplets, it still displays the views and ideals of the era. Throughout the poem, Lochinvar seems to just laugh in the face of the bride's father. He comes in and takes her away, although her parents disapprove.
I saw his behavior as the rebels laughing in the face of authority. England wants the colonies to do things their way, but the colonies just laugh and do what they want anyway. The father in the poem tries everything to get the bride back, but can't even find them. England does what it can to bring the colonies back to where England wants them (government, religion, etc.), and all their efforts are just in vain. I saw this poem displaying the thoughts of those in the colonies rebelling against England.
Many of the poems written before this time were all written in the same language. Burns doesn't try to write in a language other than his own: Scottish. It's what the common man knew and not big and extensive words that those in the middle and lower classes wouldn't understand. Burns' poems seem more lyrical than the works of the romantic period. They seem to express Burns' feelings toward the revolutions. "But Mousie, thou art not thy-lane," that's his way of telling the rebels they are not alone; that there are other people fighting for freedom as they wish (Promised Joy).
Robert Burns was expressing what the revolutions are resulting in. I got the idea that he was saying that he stood beside the rebels in trying to find freedom. For example in the fourth stanza, Burns talks about Scotland's "free man stand and free man fall, let him follow me."
Then again, the fifth stanza he talks about "oppressions' woes and pains. By our Sons in servile chains." I think "oppressions woes" are the colonies and the French people and the "sons in servile chains" are the peole as well.
