Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
May 14, 2013 Blog, Culture, Europe, Music, PoetryWritten in 1791, the Scottish poet Robert Burns‘ beautifully peaceful poem Sweet Afton describes the Afton water which flows through Ayrshire in southwest Scotland near the small town of New Cumnock. The area holds a lot of significance to …
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Sussex by Rudyard Kipling
May 21, 2012 Blog, Christianity, Culture, Ethnonationalism, Europe, PoetryThere are a number of words in various foreign languages, particularly German, which I wish had direct English equivalents, but which unfortunately do not. One of these words is the German “Heimat.” Heimat is defined as “the relationship of …
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The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling
September 22, 2011 Blog, Culture, Europe, PoetryThe following is a moving poem written by the great English poet Rudyard Kipling on one of the two major topics to which this website is dedicated – heritage. The Heritage Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere …
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Sir Walter Scott
August 15, 2011 Blog, Books, Colonial, Culture, Europe, History, Important People, PoetryToday marks Sir Walter Scott‘s 240th birthday. Born in 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Scott would become one of the greats of English-language literature and a national Scottish hero. Scott entered university at age 12 and began his law studies at …
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Scots Wha Hae
July 30, 2011 Blog, Colonial, Europe, History, PoetryWritten in 1793 by legendary Scottish poet Robert Burns, Scots Wha Hae is a fictional speech given by Robert the Bruce before the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The Scots won their national independence at Bannockburn, and Scots …
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The Importance of Folklore in a Nation’s Culture
July 3, 2011 Child Raising, Culture, Europeans, Family, History, Music, Poetry, South Africa and Rhodesia, Tales, The WestThe ingredients which I regard as being the most crucial to the existence of any ethnic group would probably be lineage, history, geography, beliefs, language, sense of humor, customs, and folklore. Folklore, however, is one of the aspects most …
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Miri It Is
May 28, 2011 Blog, Culture, Medieval, Music, PoetryThe poem Miri It Is is one of the oldest surviving examples of Middle English. While Old English is distinctly Germanic and almost completely indecipherable to a speaker of Modern English, Middle English, while still difficult to understand, is …
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