Summary
Robert Burns prefaced his own great poem with the last stanza quoted from Gray's Elegy yesterday. His rural worker, too, is plodding his way home in the opening verses. Burns, however, takes a more intimate view of the life of the ordinary man and his essential dignity.
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Extract
Lesley Duncan's Poem of the Day
November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh;
The short'nin...See the full content of this document
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