Robert Burns: A pre-romantic poet Poetry and music date back to the beginning of time. Both are a familiar way to share emotion and express feelings openly and freely. Poetry and music help people relate to subjects in life like love, anger, sadness, happiness, and comedy. Through the ages there has been many eras of different styles of poetry and music. Many great artists have blessed this earth but only a few left a legacy. The artists that have left a legacy only did so due to their ability to draw from an emotion they had experienced in their life and turn it into a poem or a song. Later as time passed this great artist?s works were passed on and people began to relate to the emotions contained within the literary works. This emotion is
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This was because Burns was forced to follow in his fathers footsteps as a tenant farmer.2 Young Burns was left as the head of the family farm after his fathers death due to overwork. He was the oldest of seven children.3 Farm related chores consumed most of young Burns time, he managed to find time for ?. . .The Bible, Presbyterian theology, and any books he could beg or borrow from friends and neighbors.? Later Burns then studied at a small village school for three years where he learned to read English literature, write essays and learned how to do math. Around the age of fourteen Burns began to write poetry. As time would allow, Burns was taught from the local school master John Murdock, who taught him some French.4 Watching his father being beaten down, overworked and struggling due to economic misfortune helped inspire Burns rebellious poetic side.5 Though he had a rebellious side, the talk and gossip of his drinking and sex drive are not to be over exaggerated because of this. Rather one can take this rebellious side as what gave him the inspiration drawn from his emotions for women, friends and family which he expressed through the art of poetry. Burns died on July 21, 1796 in Dumfries, Scotland due to a heart condition he had …show more content…
He went through life with struggles that humans are bound to face and he looked for the very best in every situation. This man not only accepted what life holds but choose to look for the good things life had to offer. Burns showed us the way to live life and that is to show emotion and don't be afraid to have feelings of love. He not only stayed positive but took his own stance for the things that mattered most to him and never let them go. As a poet he captured meaningful parts of his life in his emotions that he then took that and put into poetry and song. This has made him one of the most inspirational and relatable poets of all time. He took a very relatable stance in his beliefs and he intended to speak to the people that mattered most in his life; his friends, his family, his lovers and his fellow countrymen. Burns cared much about cared much about people and he showed this in his poetry and song and shared with us his great emotion of love. Love is strong and Burns understood this so he showed it freely and openly with no limit and this is what allowed him to be such a great poet, song writer and most importantly a
This was because Burns was forced to follow in his fathers footsteps as a tenant farmer.2 Young Burns was left as the head of the family farm after his fathers death due to overwork. He was the oldest of seven children.3 Farm related chores consumed most of young Burns time, he managed to find time for ?. . .The Bible, Presbyterian theology, and any books he could beg or borrow from friends and neighbors.? Later Burns then studied at a small village school for three years where he learned to read English literature, write essays and learned how to do math. Around the age of fourteen Burns began to write poetry. As time would allow, Burns was taught from the local school master John Murdock, who taught him some French.4 Watching his father being beaten down, overworked and struggling due to economic misfortune helped inspire Burns rebellious poetic side.5 Though he had a rebellious side, the talk and gossip of his drinking and sex drive are not to be over exaggerated because of this. Rather one can take this rebellious side as what gave him the inspiration drawn from his emotions for women, friends and family which he expressed through the art of poetry. Burns died on July 21, 1796 in Dumfries, Scotland due to a heart condition he had …show more content…
He went through life with struggles that humans are bound to face and he looked for the very best in every situation. This man not only accepted what life holds but choose to look for the good things life had to offer. Burns showed us the way to live life and that is to show emotion and don't be afraid to have feelings of love. He not only stayed positive but took his own stance for the things that mattered most to him and never let them go. As a poet he captured meaningful parts of his life in his emotions that he then took that and put into poetry and song. This has made him one of the most inspirational and relatable poets of all time. He took a very relatable stance in his beliefs and he intended to speak to the people that mattered most in his life; his friends, his family, his lovers and his fellow countrymen. Burns cared much about cared much about people and he showed this in his poetry and song and shared with us his great emotion of love. Love is strong and Burns understood this so he showed it freely and openly with no limit and this is what allowed him to be such a great poet, song writer and most importantly a