Do you love some good poems? While most people just tend to ignore the best poets and their work, the truth is that this recent new on MSN portal gives me the idea that an increasing number of people is caring about it:
Scottish poet Robert Burns gave the English-speaking world some of its most famous sayings and sentiments, including the New Year's favorite “Auld Lang Syne” and the rhapsody, “my love is like a red, red rose.”
Now on the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Scottish government hopes worldwide interest in the poet will create a boom in the tourist trade.
The anniversary on Sunday, celebrated by Scots around the world as Burns Night, will be marked by the usual Burns Suppers, feasts at which devotees consume Scotch whisky and haggis — a delicacy made of oats and offal wrapped in a sheep's stomach — and toast the life and works of Scotland's bard.
