Robert Burns The Peoples Poet BBC Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2015
- Robert Burns (Rabbie) was an influential Scottish poet and lyricist during the Romantic movement. He is recognized as Scotland's finest poet and his work is celebrated all over the world. Learn more:
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns
www.robertburns.org/
If you are scottish, share this with your children. It's your duty to keep the flame burning forever. 🏴
@mike johnson But not your culture.
@mike johnson you sound like an old Christmas card, aye greetin.
Excellent documentary. I especially liked the fact that the presenter was himself a Scottish writer. He chose to hone in on the many artistc compromises and contadictions Burns made either voluntarily or otherwise. Thankfully they didn't stifle his genius. Very enjoyable programme.
Under 500 views is ridiculous. Robert Burns can truly and without overstating, be considered as a genius. Way ahead of progression and enlightenment. Absolutely, poetic.
48k now :)
mebbes the embra spelling gie folk the boak likesay
Dont worry son,we read books on Burns years b4 you chube was around❤.
I watch this video just about every year in Jan. The does justice to this passionate man in the time that is alloted. I only wish it longer, a great piece of art, thank you.
❤ Such a good documentary. Thanks for sharing. 🙏
Great documentary… thank you for sharing.
excellent documentary
Such a well done, nuanced presentation. As someone who has made a subsistence living as an artist in my youth, I wonder if Burns could have avoided the hypocrisy label noted at the end, had he been compensated abundantly for his genius and contribution to the literary reputation of Scotland.
Delighted to have found this! Happy New Year!
Best documentry ever on the Heaven Taught Plooman.
I just brain blazed too hard & danny brought me here.. fascinating to find out about robert burns's life
Fantastic!
My ancestor! It makes me proud to be of his bloodline!
OMG SAME hey there cousin!
@@RNFLACKOratshobo what’s your family lineage? My grandfather and greats down the line were all named Robert Burns, until my Grandfather had all daughters lol
Hey cuz!!! ❤️
@@Silverchord1974 My grandmother on my mothers side was his direct descendent through her father, she was born in Aberdeen and migrated from Scotland to Canada and settled in Quebec, her maiden name was straight up Burns.
My Grandmother is related to
Jean burns
I know nobody’s gonna believe me but I’m Robert Burns 50 times granddaughter I’m not joking I am
cool! :)
how did you find out?
I believe you because I’m a great great great grandson
Cheers this helped with my Rabbie Burns homework
Maun delicht tae read Rabbie Burns noo a'm aulder bit it wis tortur as ae wean.
(Such delight to read Robert Burns now I am older but it was torture as a child).
Intriguing.
So what happened to his poor wife and childern? It distresses me greatly to think of Jean giving posthumous birth and no income to keep it and her other children from starving in a workhouse. His literary legacy lived on, but we need to know about his mortal legacy as well.
The poet he was, to the Scottish , some we know and some we don't is fame to all who knew him best, so read and site his words when his birthday is here we never will forget, Rabbie ever more always to your words be known to all whom knows them best.
God bless the people's poet
He kept our Scottish identity alive, when it was just the candles flame after Culloden. He fought not with swords but with the pen and the mither tongue.
Love the weedgie "to a mouse"!!
oh once I loved a bonnie lass,
Aye, and I love her still
And whilst that virtue warms my breast
I love my handsome Nell
As Bonnie lassies I hae seen,
An mauny full as braw
But for a modest, gracefu' mein
The like I never saw..
A bonie lass, I will confess
Is pleasant to the e'e (eye)
But without some better qualities
She's no the lass for me
But Nelly's looks are Blyth and sweet
And what is best of aw' (all)
Her reputation is complete
And fair without a flaw...
She dresses aye sae clean an' neat
Both decent an' gente'el
And then theirs somethin' in her gait
Gars ony dress look we'el
A gawdy dress and gentle air
may slightly touch the heart
but it's innocence and modesty
that polishes the dart
Tis this in Nelly pleases me
tis this enchants my soul
for absolutely, in my breast
She reigns without control.
beautiful ❤❤❤
Id like to know more about the family tree of robbie burns leading to current family, I was told by my late grandfather that we were direct descendants. I would love to know more.
I was thinking the same but it must be more like a family forest considering his libido and the lack of contraception in 18th century Scotland.
Dear possible cousin try this www.burness.ca/burns.html he is my 7 gt grandmother step grandson
Lol yeah he's one on my ancestors and I'm not kidding
You do know he has up to today 1500 descendants. Welcome to the club
I am breaking out my kilt for a burns supper tomorrow
aye the deils awa,
He is my ancestor and I'm not joking
Can you do the jolly beggars right?
Did you know, Robert Burns’ daughter (Elizabeth) was burried in whitburn?
Aberdeen 🇬🇧
59:13 to 59:15 is pretty much modern Scotland tho !
Edinboro?
EDINBURGH....edin-burra.
@terry#66 he don't know 🤣🤣🤣
Funny; today we sinners all just sit amongst the congregation. I wonder; is it because they didn't have enough seats up front and center?
Watching this documentary may leave the casual viewer with the mistaken view that Burns was some sort of atheist, proto-Marxist, free-loving, cosmopolitan Beatle who disdained all forms of tradition. As with many historical figures, one often learns more about the scholar than the subject when reading or viewing these interpretations.
Then please offer some insight . I am student of English literature and we have romanticism in this semester.
pearl nuri Romanticism is a product of the post-Catholic, industrializing Europe of the 18th and 19th centuries. Robert Burns’ naturalist, pastoral, patriotic, and crypto-Catholic poems are dismissed by this documentary as efforts to make money or win favour. I would argue that those works are Burns’ true response to a life under Scottish Presbyterianism and English domination of Scotland, an attempt to preserve what was disappearing from his home land. Protestant repression also explains his often caddish behavior when it comes to women and drink.
Agreed. It's a well produced documentary, but O'Hagen's constant hand-wringing over any aspect of Burn's story that doesn't neatly align with his own ideas and politics was extremely off putting. He seems less interested in who Burns was and more interested in what *he* thinks Burns *should* be.
@@Rapscallion019 I appreciate this insight. Watching this documentary left me with wondering about the real Robert Burns. I also wonder how and why he was so glorified? Yes wonderful poetry but sounds like he personally was so disrespectful, to put it lightly, to his wife and children. Where was the honor there? Did he love his wife and children? What did he really feel about his weaknesses, About God ? I can’t belief he was that shallow, which is how he comes across here. With that being said, I love so much of Robert Burns poetry.
Does he know ??? 🤣
CovidImages need to be invested more than half19
Line dancing to me is how the devil and hitler spend their free time
With all due respect Mate , you know very little about the poetic fire of our dear Rabbi Burns .
And as for a readin' - Nay , ye cannie read it like that !
So, John Lennon would approve of slave driving? 🤔
I admired Lennon very much as a musician, but I never thought much of him as a man.
@@erinundra Burns didn't go. He changed his mind.