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1、MASTERTHESISScotsPastoralandRobertBurnsEnglishLanguageandLiteratureAreaForeignLanguagesSchoolZhejiangUniversityofFinanceandEconomicsSubmittedbyWangLinanSupervisor:ProfessorXuXiaodongDecember,2014ABSTRACTKnownasthe“heaven-taughtploughman”,RobertBurns(1759-96)isoneofthemostfamousandinfluentialb
2、ardsinScotland.HeisalsowidelyregardedasthenationalpoetofScotlandandiscelebratedaroundtheworld.HispoemsarealwayswrittenintheScottishdialectonavarietyofversionsexpoundingondifferentsubjects,suchaspoliticalpoems,satiricalepigramsandlyricsballads.Ifdomesticstudiesaremainlyconcernedwiththeapprecia
3、tionandtranslationofcertainepigramsandepistlesofBurns’earlypoems,thisthesiswillmainlyexplorehislaterpoemsfromanothernewpointtoenlargeawilderhorizon---Burns’vocationalinvolvementwiththeprosethgeorgicsandScotspastoralinthe18century,towhichhehasgraduallyattractedmoreandmoreattention.Whatimpresse
4、susreadersmosttodayaboutRobertBurnsis,ontheonehand,thehallmarkfeatureofhisreinventionofpastoral---hisuseofScottishdialectandfrequenteschewalofpoliteAugustancoupletverseinfavorofsixteenthandseventeenth-centuriesScotsverseformssuchastheChrist’sKirk,CherryandSlae,especiallytheadoptionoftheStanda
5、rdHabbie.SomeofhismostfamouspoemssuchasToaMouseandHolyWillie’sPrayerhavesurpriseduswiththeirunusualpoetictechniques,particularlyforitsemploymentofthisrepresentative6-linestanza.Ontheotherhand,RobertBurnscallsfortherenaissanceofclassical,andespeciallyTheocritanpastoral,whichisidentifiedwiththe
6、shepherd-songsvoiceoftherevivalofScottishvernacularpoetryatthattime.ButBurns’pastoralpoemshavethetendencyforrusticityandforcriticalrealism,whichisinlinewiththeScotspastoralpoetry.Burns’poemsarerooteddeeplyinScotland,andarealwaysthereflectionsoflocalcolorandcustoms.Hispoemsrelateshepherds,thec
7、otterswithwhomheisquitefamiliarwith,thepureandinnocentyouthofScotland,theheroeswhohavefoughtfortheindependenceoftheirnation,andtheScotchurchandthesnobbishgentrywhichhehatredsmost.IAsaploughmanpoet,Burnsisquitefamiliarwiththelocalnativeland,wh
