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Post by LesTele on Jan 24, 2020 17:02:19 GMT -5
As a resident of Ayrshire, I may toast a haggis tomorrow. I may toast lassies.
Tam O’Shanter, Auld Lang Syne - what is your exposure to Robert Burns, his poetry and his songs?
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Post by RockAndRoll on Jan 24, 2020 17:09:32 GMT -5
I was in Edinburgh years ago with a group of people where the "Address to a Haggis" was read and bagpipes were played. Despite the dire warnings of how vile haggis could be, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The liberal quantities of Drambuie and Glenfarclas may have played a role.  |
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Post by LesTele on Jan 24, 2020 17:29:52 GMT -5
Haggis - oatmeal, lamb and spices. What’s not to like?
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 24, 2020 17:30:03 GMT -5
The last two years of High School I was in an honors literature program. Robert Burns popped up often -- less for his actual work than how he inspired other poets and composers of the time. I don't presently have an Islands Region scotch -- but I may go out tomorrow and pick up a bottle of Talisker or Highland Park to toast old Bob.
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Post by LesTele on Jan 24, 2020 17:48:40 GMT -5
From a Guardian article 12 years ago
“Bob Dylan's greatest creative inspiration is not Woody Guthrie, Little Richard or Odetta. It's even not Picasso or Cézanne. Instead, Dylan has revealed his greatest inspiration is Scotland's favourite son, the Bard of Ayrshire, the 18th-century poet known to most as Rabbie Burns.
As part of an advertising campaign this year, Dylan was asked to name the lyric or verse that had the greatest impact on his life. Rather than quoting his idol Woody Guthrie or poet Dylan Thomas, from whom it is thought that Robert Zimmerman took his name, Dylan selected A Red, Red Rose, written by Robert Burns in 1794.
"O, my luve's like a red, red rose," the poem begins, "That's newly sprung in June. / O, my luve's like the melodie, / That's sweetly play'd in tune."”
I took it with a pinch of salt at the time.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Jan 24, 2020 18:21:39 GMT -5
Silly me, I thought you were going to celebrate Burns guitars and their great creator, Jim Burns.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 24, 2020 22:28:20 GMT -5
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Post by LesTele on Jan 24, 2020 22:42:29 GMT -5
He’s never Robbie or Bob. It’s Robert or Rabbie apparently. You only get the full appreciation of William McGonagall if you give him his full name, William Topaz McGonagall.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 24, 2020 23:36:37 GMT -5
He’s never Robbie or Bob. It’s Robert or Rabbie apparently. You only get the full appreciation of William McGonagall if you give him his full name, William Topaz McGonagall. I stand corrected. |
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Post by MacDoof on Jan 25, 2020 3:30:50 GMT -5
Highly censored versions of his poetry were taught at school in Scotland His uncle Robert,(and his cousin Fanny Burns!) lived in the village of Stewarton where I partly grew up. There is a memorial to him in the cemetery there. My favourite Burns poem is 'To a Louse' its a hard read, but ends thus..
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!
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Post by Charente on Jan 25, 2020 4:35:25 GMT -5
Well my mother used to make a mean clootie dumplin'  and having just moved into a little hamlet down the Ards peninsula we've found out that it's reputed to be haunted in Ulster-Scots lore : “Then, dinnae crass Ardkeen at night Whun winter 's murk and dreary ; 'Mang a' the lanesome nuiks in Airds By night there 's nane sae eerie. Thon Castle Hill is haunted groun’; By elves an' ghaists it's guarded; There spectre Chieftains pace the fiel's Ower which lang syne they lorded; The haunted hill |
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 25, 2020 10:47:56 GMT -5
"I stand corrected."
Me too.
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Post by LesTele on Jan 25, 2020 14:37:57 GMT -5
"I stand corrected." Me too. Sorry. Apologies to Riff Twang too. Burns was all about the the inclusion and I have ruined that. |
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 25, 2020 15:51:10 GMT -5
I didn't know -- thanks for tipping me off. No apology necessary.
Cool post -- we could use a bit more culture here.
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Post by LesTele on Jan 25, 2020 19:59:01 GMT -5
Cool post -- we could use a bit more culture here. I’ll try harder. Watch out Canadians for my Robert Service thread. I used to go for a curry in what was once his house in Kilwinning. |
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 25, 2020 23:07:22 GMT -5
"I stand corrected." Me too. Sorry. Apologies to Riff Twang too. Burns was all about the the inclusion and I have ruined that.
No need for apologies. To be honest, I'm generally a bit pedantic about such things personally and feel I should have used the correct appellation to begin with.
I'm guessing his sense of inclusion is part of what endears him to so many.
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and having just moved into a little hamlet down the Ards peninsula we've found out that it's reputed to be haunted in Ulster-Scots lore :