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Description: | On a weary winter's evening, Burns looks back on a life wasted, including by his 'blethers ...... in rhyme', but just as he is about to abandon poetry forever, a Scottish Muse comes to him, providing visions of Scotland and its heroes, inspiring him to carry on.
Burns worked hard and long throughout his life, producing his huge output of poems and songs between farming and later excise duties. 'The Vision' clearly evokes this contrast between the hardship of his life and the breadth of his inspiration.
Burns sees the river Ayr and lesser torrents upon the Muse's cloak, and then the borough of Ayr itself, with people bred to virtue. By local landmarks heroes could be seen - with the heroic race of Wallace beating back their English foes. Burns uses larger writing and notes to identify the glorious Wallaces - the 'Country's Saviour' being William Wallace. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1786-01-01 - 1786-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | The Stair Manuscript, a collection of 8 | Go to resource |
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