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Star Object 4 - Poetry, Cross Keys Inn

Lines of poetry inscribed on the window of the Cross Keys Inn, Falkirk.

For Burns, writing verse was often a spontaneous activity, done on the spur of the moment in the countryside, on horseback or even scratched into an alehouse window. Unlike poets such as Wordsworth, who suggested poetry should be "emotions recalled in tranquil reflection", Burns was a passionate man who felt inspired to compose on the spot.

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