Mme. Muller: For A That, Robert Burns

 For A That and A That

by Robert Burns

Song version by the Corries.

Eddie Reader version of the poem

The Wikipédia website on the poem

Poetry Analysis on the poem

Timeline of Robert Burns' life and historic events.

Quote about Burns and social equality:

Burns believes there is a prodigious need for freedom and that prosperity and wealth would develop if the workers were able to flourish. Burns believed that freedom would improve humanity and expressed this in his poems. For Example, in A Man’s A Man For A’ That Burns dreams of a world of equality saying  

‘It’s coming yet for a’ that, 

That Man to Man, the world o’er, 

Shall brothers be for a’ that.’ 

Burns has a vision of a great partnership of humanity and inevitably of a better world filled with fully rounded decent people. Burns’ places this revolutionary ideal at the end of the poem emphasising the vision of equality and unity in a new world.  

The need for equality, in all forms, is a belief that was clearly close to Burns’ heart.