18.4 What I have learned

Before finishing your work on this unit, please revisit what you worked on in Activity 1, where we asked you to take some notes on what you already knew in relation to the key learning points of the unit.

Compare your notes from before you studied this unit with what you have learned here and add to these notes as you see fit to produce a record of your learning.

Here are the key learning points again for you as a reminder:

• the range of vernacular dialects and the synthesis of dialects in crafted, literary Scots poems
• the range of forms in literary Scots poems and the relation between voice (or voices) and poetic form (or forms) through history
• ways of saying (forms of address: who is being talked to, what is the position of the reader and what is the position of the writer?)
• the distinctive or ‘untranslatable’ characteristics of poetry in Scots.