ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Auld Lang Syne, perhaps Burns’ most famous work, is one of the most widely sung songs of the English language. The song has crossed borders and oceans and can be heard across the globe on Hogmanay.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Burns was Scotland’s greatest poet and many would say that he was the world’s greatest ever poet. Burns was born at Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on 25 January 1759 and died in Dumfries on 21 July 1796. In less than 37 years of life he accomplished more than most people do in a normal lifetime.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Burns is the best loved Scottish poet, admired not only for his verse and great love-songs, but also for his character, his high spirits, ‘kirk-defying’, hard drinking and womanising! He came to fame as a poet when he was 27 years old, and his lifestyle of wine, women and song made him famous all over Scotland.

Detailed explanation-4: -’To a Mouse’ The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. These lines, which are amongst the most famous in world literature, are from Burns’ poem ‘To a Mouse’.