Biography of Robert Burns

                                                                 Robert Burns

Robert Burns is a Scottish national poet born on January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. His best work is in Scotland, southern Scottish. He writes lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. His intense feelings and technical skills characterize the work of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Typical poetry themes include republicanism, radicalism, Scottish patriotism, anti-clericalism, class inequality, gender roles, poverty and sexuality. Burns is often regarded as a proto-Romantic poet, who influenced William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Although his parents, Willian Burnes and Agnes Broun were tenant farmers, they made sure their son received a relatively good education and he began to read diligently. The family worked hard on the Ayrshire farm and in several other places, but their lives had never been easier. From 1765 to 1768, he and his brother Gilbert were taught by John Murdoch. John taught them Latin, French, and mathematics. For next few years, he studied at home only. During the summer of 1772, Burns was sent to Dalrymple Parish School. In the summer of 1775, he was sent to Kirkoswald to finish his education. In 1779, he joined a country dancing school and the following year, formed the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club with his brother Gilbert. In 1781, Burns went to Irvine, North Ayrshire to learn to become a flax-dresser. But shortly after the flax shop caught fire in New Year celebrations, Robert had to return to Lochlea. His father died in 1784. At the age of fifteen, he fell in love and soon he wrote his first poem. As a young man, Burns pursued love and poetry with ordinary enthusiasm. Very famous literary works are To a Mouse, A Man's A Man for A' That,Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha Hae, Tam O'Shanter, Halloween, The Battle of Sherramuir. He was an admirable letter writer and a brilliant talker, and he could hold his own in any company. At the same time, he was still a struggling tenant farmer, and the attempt to keep himself going in two different social and intellectual capacities was wearing him down. In 1795, Burns was inspired by the events of the French Revolution to write "For a' that and a' that", his cry for human equality. One year later, Robert Burns died on July 21, 1796 in Dumfries at the age of 37. At first, he was buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. He was finally moved to its final resting place in the same cemetery, the Burns Mausoleum in September 1815. Robert Burns gained more fame after his death than he ever did during his lifetime. Many of his songs and poems have become international favourites - even among those who find his use of Scottish lowland dialect difficult to decipher.

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