To understand the true meaning behind "Auld Lang Syne", they would first have to know what the title means and where the poem is from.

The poem is Scottish and is written by a Scotsman, therefore the poem is written in a Scottish accent. There is a translated version provided to help the reader to understand what the poem is saying. This breakdown will be refering the original words to the poem.

There are two characters in this poem. The first character is the narrator. The narrator is recounting old memories that he and the second character shared together. The second character can be two different people. One version makes the second character to be a very close friend. The other version portrays the second character to be a wife or girlfriend. This analogy will use the first version, but has the same meaning if used for the...