Robert Burns' birthday, January 25, is traditionally celebrated across the world with Burns Suppers. Hi poetic style is marked by spontaneity, directness and sincerity with injections of humour and tender intensity which had a great influence on Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridgeand Percy Bysshe Shelley. Celebrating the Scots dialect in his writing, Burns was celebrated as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and became renowned for collecting and adapting traditional Scottish folk songs. As a rose is the flower most connected to romance, this is a strong simile. As Burns Night approaches we thought no better time to start celebrating than with our weekly Featured Poem, My love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns.īorn in 1759, Robert "Rabby" Burnsis perhaps Scotland's most famous poet and lyricist.
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