Презентация на тему Robert Burns

poets in the late 18th century England.
He was born

into a poor Scottish peasant family.

1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son,

the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.

HIS LIFE

eldest of the seven children of William Burness

his father (now the Burns Cottage Museum), where he

lived until Easter 1766, when he was seven years old.

Burns grew up in poverty and hardship, however, his casual love affairs did not endear him to the elders of the local kirk and created for him a reputation for dissoluteness amongst his neighbours.

enough money to support his family. He lived in

great poverty all his life.
He was a poetic genius. He had an aptitude for Scottish folk songs.

poems The Jolly Beggars, Halloween, Holy Willie’s Prayer, to

a mouse, the two dogs and others.
Burns travelled a lot about Scotland collecting popular folk songs.
Many of his poems were put to music.

Burns
The poems of Burns are written in the Scottish

dialect on a variety of subjects.

1) Political poems
2) Satirical poems
3) Lyrics

Mainly, 3 kinds

Examples

the most loved are :
Ae Fond Kiss
A Red

Red Rose
Tam O’Shanter
Address to the Haggis
Tae a Moose
A Man’s a Man for A’ That and
Auld Lang Syne

1794, published in 1796

a Red rose», is one of the most loved

lyrical songs.
Many of songs he devoted to his wife.
Burns songs are the soul of music.
Beethoven, Schuman, Mendelssohn, others compose music to the poets verses.

close to people’s lives.

He wrote about the

national struggle of the Scottish people for their liberation from English oppression.

Burns considered his literary work as his patriotic duty.

Jean Armour
He had 11 children with 4 different women
He

said ‘ The sweetest hours that ere I spent were spent amang the lasses o’

food and drink , dancing , poetry and song.