Critisism of Robert Burns

Robert Burns wrote during the Romantic Age. At this time people were beginning to question society and its ways. Burns was one of the greatest poets of this time. Burns was sometimes referred to as the National Poet of Scotland. Burns lived a shortened life and by his mid twenties he had been in and out of a few love affairs. Hew spent his last days traveling to Northern England, and the Scottish Highlands to find traditional songs and ballads. Burns wrote more than 300 original songs.

Burns was a poet who wrote what the people of society was thinking, but more specificall

y the people of middle-class society. He often wrote of public issues and political issues. In "Twa Dogs", Burns discusses the difference between the imaginary suffering of the rich and the real hardship of the poor. Burns is saying that the mind of the rich suffers just as much as the body and soul of the poor does. Also, as times changed in Scottish life so did Burns' poetry. To relate to the common folk of Scot land, Burns wrote in Scottish dialect. This reminds critics of the 1800's writer Mark Twain who wrote in dialect of his time for his readers and in Huck Finn, Twain too wrote of man growing and thinking against society. John Anderson, my Jo was a song that Burns rewrote telling of a elderly woman's feelings toward aging. The woman is remembering her husband in his younger days and comparing him to the man he is t this current elderly age. The love of her partner is easily shown and she feds that death will be a shared experience.

One of Burns' most popular poems was "Holy Willie's Praye

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