Friday 25 January 2013

Robert Burns

As you may know today is Burns day. I have been invited to a "Burns night"where we eat traditional Scottish food and recite some poems Robert Burns made up.

Robert Burns lived on a farm when he was boy and that's why they call him the 'ploughman's poet'. Later, he went to Edinburgh after his poems were published and was greeted by the most rich people in the city. He also met Miss Agnes McLehose, who he wrote 'As fond kiss' for. He died on 17 July 1796 due to a bad heart. He was just 37.

My favourite poem by Burns is "My heart is in the highlands". It goes like this:

My Heart's In The Highlands
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

I like it because it is the only poem that is really adventurous because it is talking about chasing deer and running around. It's also a nice picture of Scotland.

1 comment:

  1. This is a beautiful poem Bec. The post is also beautifully written. Love Grandad

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