View To A Haggis Poem Pictures. Address to a haggis is a poem written by robert burns in 1786 and read here by john gordon sinclair. 'address to a haggis' (1786) is an essential component of traditional burns suppers.
Haggis is not an animal as folklore suggests but is actually a dish.
This address is more than a celebration of a traditional 'peasant' dish. Address to a haggis is a poem written by robert burns in 1786 and read here by john gordon sinclair. But before the haggis, neeps and tatties can be tucked into, the dish must be toasted with a ceremonial reading of the poet's work, a secular blessing paying burns himself wrote a poem ideally suited to this purpose, address to a haggis, an ode it has since become the custom to recite before the meal. His mother cried what shall we do?