Help On "BONNY BARBARA ALLAN" Please!!?

Question

1.Of what is Sir John Graeme dying?

2.Why does the heroin of the song refuse him her love?

3.When does Barbara Allan repent?

4. Describe what has happened to Sir John Graeme and Barbara Allan by the end of the peom and how they eventually are together.

Answer 1

1. Of love.

2. Because, at the tavern, he offered a toast to all the ladies, but not one specifically to Barbara Allan.

3. She repents when he dies. Then she realizes how hard-hearted she had been, and dies of love too.

4. They are buried next to each other in the churchyard. A rosebush grew from his heart, and from hers, a thorny briar. The two intertwined, with the briar acting as a support for the roses.