1. Robert Burns

2. Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin-race!
Apostrophe:
A direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity.
e.g.
To a Haggis
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang’s my arm.’

3. Standard Habbie (Burns Stanza)
‘One of the most popular verse forms in Scottish literature.
6 line stanza consisting of 4 iambic tetrameter lines alternating with 2 iambic dimeter lines, rhyming aaabab.
‘Named after 16th Century poem ‘Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan’ by Robert Sempill

4. The Standard Habbie form
From ‘To a Mouse’
_ / _ / _ / _ / _
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, a
0, what a panic’s in thy breastie! a
Thou need na start awa sae hasty, a
Wi’ bickering brattle! b
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, a
Wi’ murd’ring pattle! b

5. Calvinism
A strict form of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England in the 16th century. John Calvin held a view on predestination. This is the view that God has actively chosen some people for salvation. These people are referred to as ‘The Elect’.

7. From Tam O’Shanter
Care, mad to see a man sae happy, a E'en drown'd himsel' amang the nappy! a As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, b The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: b Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious. c O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! c

8. Tam O’Shanter read by Karen Dunbar

9. Context and Form Written in 1790 at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries
Published in the Edinburgh Herald, 18th March 1791 then in Groe’s Antiquities of Scotland to accompany Grose’s description of Alloway Kirk.
Verse form: octosyllabic rhyming couplets

10. Provide evidence/quotation to support what you say.
Begin to annotate the poem… The narrative structure The persona of the narrator
The pace of the narrative-where is the pace quick, where does it slow?
Where are the hints as to what will happen to Tam later in the narrative?
Where is the crisis point-the place where tension and expectation come to a climax?
What/who is the persona adopted by Burns in this poem?
What kind of person does the narrator seem to be? Is he male? What are his attitudes/beliefs? What is his point of view with regard to Tam’s behaviour?
Provide evidence/quotation to support what you say.