Robert Burns Poetry

[AN COIGREACH ALBANNACH]

I only just found this part of the forum and I'm pretty excited about it!

I read heaps of Burns when I was younger.My granda gave me an old book of Rabbies poems.O.k favourite.
Similar to Gradatim Vincimus there is more than one but I do love WINTER:A DIRGE.
Why? Well i'm a winter person.I love it.When I lived in scotland and winter came along,I thought,'now this is a real winter.Brilliant!'
But deeper than that,when I was not quite 22 I got married.It did not last,but I really tried hard to make it,because I took my vow seriously.It was an unhappy time of my life for many reasons and the way Burns took the chill and windy howl of winter as a soul mate for his feelings of joylessness at that time just hit a cord with me back then.

"The tempest's howl,it soothes the soul,
My griefs it seems to join;"

"Then all I want-O do Thou grant
This one request of mine!-
Since to ENJOY Thou dost deny,
Assist me to RESIGN."

Cheers for a brilliant thread Jimmy boy!

[Jimmy]

probably the most interesting part of this thread is the diversity of poetry and the way that our members are interpreting these poems as in Winter- A Dirge