A drunk man looks at the thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
"A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" by Hugh MacDiarmid is a long poem written in Scots and published in 1926. This modernist work presents a monologue that swings between comic and serious modes, examining cultural, political, existential, and metaphysical themes through the narrator's contemplation of Scotland's condition. The 2685-line poem draws on stream of consciousness techniques, incorporates responses to European writers like Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, and showcases MacDiarmid's distinctive literary Scots—a
language drawing from various Scottish dialects to create universal literary expression. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 |
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| Title | A drunk man looks at the thistle |
| Original Publication | Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1926. |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Drunk_Man_Looks_at_the_Thistle |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Scotland -- Poetry |
| Subject | Scottish poetry |
| Subject | Dialect poetry, Scottish |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 72731 |
| Release Date | Jan 15, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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