Robert Burns was born in 1759 in a small clay-built cottage at Alloway in the family of a poor farmer. He was the eldest son of a peasant farmer. His father worked from the early morning till late night and soon, when Robert was 13-year old, he began ploughing fields with him. The difficulty of the labour had a terrible effect on his health later. Life was extremely harsh and the farm was not succeeding. Even being a child he had to work long hours with his father, and many evenings were spent huddled round the fire listening to his mother's stories and his father reading the Bible. For Robert, the combination of poverty, hard work on the farm, story telling, his studies, and an ability to observe life in general, was making The Man.
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· O' My Luve is like a red, red rose- surely the most famous love poem and a well-known song, which women enjoy.
· To a Mouse This poem wonderfully demonstrates Burns' ability to observe people, his deep feeling for humanity and his emotions.
· Address to a Haggis - One of the well known of Burns's poems, recited at Burns “Suppers, St. Andrews Nights or Caledonian Society Events”, where that most famous of Scottish delicacies "Haggis" is on the menu.
· "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was considered to be one of the greatest poetical collections ever written. Its appeal was obvious not only to the educated, but importantly, to the common man just like Burns himself.
· My heart’s in the highlands – a poem that is known all over the world. It tells about Burns love to Scotland , to a wild nature.
Burns is remarkable from different sides. Ask anyone outside His success went from his early years. When he was a teen he got some acquaintances among fellows from aristocratic society, that were his first teachers of good manners. And when he appeared in the higher
He had a saturated life, but he was unhappy before his death. Ten days before it, he wrote to his cousin asking him to send 10 pounds . He owed a large sum of money to a shopkeeper, so he wrote: “All that remains of me – bones and skin – they would surely throw in prison. Save me from the terror of prison”.
Burns had many attachments among women but his life-long love was Jean Armour - his wife, which sang every song created by him.
This is a pleasant thing in his life. Also, it is interesting, that after his death all of his sons were well educated.
For me, Burns is a hero, because of his life. He was born as a son of a farmer and died as a famous Man, great poet. I think, he is an example to follow. I can learn a lesson from his life – everybody can earn the success. Burns died on 21st July, 1796 aged 37 at This is a pleasant thing in his life. Also, it is interesting, that after his death all of his sons were well educated.
Anna Makhmudova
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