Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle he waiata roa na Hugh MacDiarmid i tuhia i te reo Scottish ka whakaputaina i te tau 1926. I hangaia hei momo monologue me nga awe mai i te rerenga o te hinengaro momo tuhi. He whiti o ngā tino, kei waenganui i ngā aratau whakaata me te tino, ā, ka tirotirohia e ia he whānuitanga o ngā kaupapa ahurea, ā-hinengaro, tōrangapū, pūtaiao, oranga, metaphysical me cosmic, i te mutunga ka whakakotahihia e tētahi aho matua, te whakaaro nui o te kaitito, e titiro ana ki te āhua o Scotland. Kei roto hoki i ngā urupare whānui, matatini hoki ki ngā whika o te pukapuka Pākehā me te reo Rūhia, otirā ki a Dostoevsky me Nietzsche, tae atu ki ngā tohutoro ki ngā kaupapa o nāianei me ngā tangata o waenganui o ngā tau 1920 pēnei i a Isadora Duncan, i te
UK General Strike o te tau 1926. Koia tētahi o ngā mahi nui o te mātauranga o nāianei o te rau tau 20.