AQA (B): Paper 1 Aspects of comedy: poetry anthology
Robert Burns’s poem ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ is said to have been the poet’s personal favourite. With enjoyable rhymes and rhythms, a suspenseful, engaging narrative and vivid descriptions, it is a popular choice for readings on Burns nights (the dinners given around the poet’s birthday on 25 January to celebrate his life and works). And, above all, the poem is funny. As the poet Carol Rumens contends, ‘there’s never a doubt that the comic spirit presides’ (Rumens 2013).
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