Project Gutenberg 2024-01-15 Public domain in the USA. 470 MacDiarmid, Hugh 1892 1978 M'Diarmid, Hugh McDiarmid, Hugh Grieve, Christopher Murray Leslie, Arthur A drunk man looks at the thistle $aEdinburgh :$bWilliam Blackwood & Sons, $c1926. Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Drunk_Man_Looks_at_the_Thistle 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.) "A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle" by Hugh MacDiarmid is a complex poem written in the early 20th century. This work is a blend of philosophical musings and personal reflections, rooted in Scottish identity and culture. The poem navigates themes of drunkenness, national consciousness, and existential inquiry, presented through a unique, colloquial Scots dialect. The opening of the poem introduces a narrator who, in a state of inebriation, contemplates his existence and the nature of Scottish life. He reflects on his weariness, societal expectations, and the contrast between his drunken thoughts and the sober realities he observes. Through vivid imagery, he explores the symbolic significance of the thistle, Scotland’s national emblem, while expressing disdain for the superficiality he perceives in contemporary Scottish culture. As he grapples with his identity and the weight of expectation, the narrator’s insights reveal a tension between desire for personal freedom and the constraints of societal norms, setting the stage for deeper explorations throughout the poem. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000001380395 20230316043805macdiarmid 1926 GB Reading ease score: 74.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Scotland -- Poetry Scottish poetry Dialect poetry, Scottish PR Text Category: Poetry 288382 2025-07-28T15:42:14.766289 text/html 263608 2024-01-15T19:57:38 text/html 287612 2025-07-28T15:42:21.592736 application/epub+zip 291352 2025-07-28T15:42:16.163282 application/epub+zip 161616 2025-07-28T15:42:15.389258 application/epub+zip 377452 2025-07-28T15:42:24.644775 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 373177 2025-07-28T15:42:20.935243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 151279 2025-07-28T15:42:13.279294 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 131389 2024-01-15T19:57:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16167 2025-07-28T15:42:24.802704 application/rdf+xml 9366 2025-07-28T15:42:15.681257 image/jpeg 1843 2025-07-28T15:42:15.533247 image/jpeg 226474 2025-07-28T15:42:14.787268 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia