My Heart's In The Highlands Comments
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
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ONE: Nostalgia and love for the Scottish Highlands. The speaker laments leaving his homeland and expresses a deep longing to return. CONGRATS being chosen
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. A great poem of Burns.. tony
wonderful, lovely poem, so is the translation in Ukrainian by M.Lukash if only you could see it)
wonderful, lovely, so is the translation by Lukash in Ukrainian, if you could enjoy it)
I feel the poet is asking us to take a leap of imagination into the realm of the heavens. " Highlands" though it may be a physical place, it is also one of the ethereal realms. His love abundant there, no matter where he goes. His chasing the deer suggests a folly, a unity, and even a dance with nature so pure. There is much here. I've said enough. :)
A great poem, but this crappy electronic voice... it would be better I never heard it, especially reading a poem!
You should listen to Arvo Pรคrt, he used this poem to create beautiful music
This is a great poem and It really inspires me to go to the highlands and write a poem myself
One of Burns simpler poems. It is slightly hypothetical because being a Lowland Scot Burns would very rarely visit the Highlands. His heart might be there but his body seldom was!
It could be taken superficially as sentimental nostalgia. But it would be better to read it like The Lake Isle of Innisfree - the dream of a better place that we all feel, walking these pavements grey. As long as we don't take it literally.
A man after my own heart. I love the highlands also, and I enjoy most of Robbie's poems. This one is no exception.
Beautiful train of thoughts, well articulated and nicely penned with conviction. Thanks for sharing.
I love all of rabbie's stuff, but this is by far my favourite of them, my hearts up there too.
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