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Title: ROBERT BURNS (25 January 1759


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ROBERT BURNS (25 January 1759 21 July 1796)
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HIS LIFE
  • Robert Burns (25 January 1759 21 July 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.

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  • Burns was born in Alloway, South Ayrshire, the
    eldest of the seven children of William Burness

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  • He was born in a house built by 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.
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HIS WORKS
  • As well as making original compositions, Burns
    also collected folk songs from across Scotland,
    often revising or adapting them. His poem (and
    song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay
    (the last day of the year), and Scots Wha Hae
    served for a long time as an unofficial national
    anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of
    Burns that remain well-known across the world
    today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for
    A' That, Ae Fond Kiss and Tam o' Shanter.

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TAM OSHANTER
  • Tam o' Shanter, written in 1790, is one of the
    best examples of the narrative poem in modern
    European literature.
  • It tells the story of a man who stayed too long
    at a public house and witnessed a disturbing
    vision on his way home.

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  • The sight he sees is Alloway Kirk, ablaze with
    light, where a weird hallucinatory dance
    involving witches and warlocks, open coffins and
    even the Devil himself is in full swing. The
    scene is told with grimly enthusiastic gothic
    attention to detail. Tam manages to watch
    silently until, the dancing witches having cast
    off most of their clothes, he is beguiled by one
    particularly comely female witch, Nannie,
  • whose shirt (cutty-sark)
  • is too small for her.
  • He cannot help shouting
  • out in passion
  • Weel done, Cutty-sark!
  • And in an instant
  • all was dark

Auld Kirk
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There is a chase and Tams evident pride in the
ability of his horse is justified as she is able
to help him to "win the key-stone o' the brig".
(Witches and warlocks cannot cross running water.)
They only just make it though, as Nannie, first
among the "hellish legion" chasing, grabs the
horse's tail, which comes off. The poem
concludes Now, wha this tale o' truth shall
read,Ilk man and mother's son, take
heedWhene'er to Drink you are inclin'd,Or
Cutty-sarks rin in your mind,Think ye may buy
the joys o'er dearRemember Tam o' Shanter's
mare
Brig o Doon
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CUTTY SARK
  • The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869,
    she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper
    to be built for that purpose), and then as a
    training ship until being put on public display
    in 1954. She is preserved in dry dock in
    Greenwich, London.

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  • The ship is named after the cutty sark (Scots a
    short chemise or undergarment). This was the
    nickname of the fictional character Nannie Dee
    (which is also the name of the ship's figurehead)
    in Robert Burns' 1791 comic poem Tam o' Shanter.
    She was wearing a linen cutty sark that she had
    been given as a child, therefore it was far too
    small for her. The erotic sight of her dancing in
    such a short undergarment caused Tam to cry out
    "Weel done, Cutty-sark", which subsequently
    became a well known idiom.

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BRIG O DOON
  • Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by
    Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
    Songs from the musical, such as "Almost Like
    Being in Love" have become standards.

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  • It tells the story of a mysterious Scottish
    village that appears for only one day every
    hundred years, though to the villagers, the
    passing of each century seems no longer than one
    night. The enchantment is viewed by them as a
    blessing rather than a curse, for it saved the
    village from destruction. According to their
    covenant with God, no one from Brigadoon may ever
    leave, or the enchantment will be broken and the
    site and all its inhabitants will disappear into
    the mist forever. Two American tourists, lost in
    the Scottish Highlands, stumble upon the village
    just as a wedding is about to be celebrated, and
    their arrival has serious implications for the
    village's inhabitants.
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