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A long, free-ranging dramatic monologue in a Scots-inflected voice in which an inebriated speaker alternates between self-reflection and sharp cultural critique. Through digressions on language, song, literary icons, public ritual, and personal memory the speaker interrogates commercialization of tradition, the limits of rationality, artistic sincerity, and the tension between private feeling and public spectacle. The poem mixes colloquial register, ironic satire, lyric meditation, and philosophical speculation, shifting between comic invective and serious moral questioning while experimenting with form and voice to explore how history, identity, and art are remembered, commodified, and transformed.

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Title: A drunk man looks at the thistle

Author: Hugh MacDiarmid

Release date: January 15, 2024 [eBook #72731]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1926

Credits: Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE ***

A Drunk Man Looks At
The Thistle

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

  • SANGSCHAW. (1925.) 5/-
  • PENNY WHEEP. (1926.) 5/-

In Preparation.

  • TO CIRCUMJACK CENCRASTUS.

A Drunk Man Looks At
The Thistle

BY
HUGH M’DIARMID
AUTHOR OF ‘SANGSCHAW,’ ETC.

Vast imbecile mentality of those
Who cannot tell a thistle from a rose,
This is for others.
Sacheverell Sitwell.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS LTD.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
1926

Printed in Great Britain All Rights reserved