Mark Ford
speaker
404 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Mark Ford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, what kind of loss that is, obviously.
From a Freudian perspective, it looks like the castration complex being enacted at the end of the poem.
So we can come on to that.
But yeah, in these opening kind of strophes, we've
It's a tremendously kind of winning style, isn't it?
You buy into this almost immediately and it's this gregariousness and you're not going to dislike Tamashanta, even though he's obviously not much fun to be married to necessarily, but he's the life and soul of the pub.
He's drinking away and he seems to be having a kind of quite a nice time with the landlady as well.
It's not quite clear how erotic their interactions are.
Till Monday.
Keir gets drunk himself, which is an amazing thought.
And you do get some really glorious kind of nature writing, don't you?
Almost sort of...
it sort of moves out of scotch dialect for the famous bit about the pleasures like the poppies spread um and it's it's a glorious kind of p into to transience it's that really sort of standard trope of transience and it's being applied to uh getting drunk and how wonderful it is to get drunk but
One day.
All this will be over, unfortunately.
But he compares it to the rainbow and snow melting on the river.
And that could almost have been written by James Thompson or someone, couldn't it?
It's sort of interesting to try and ponder the role played by the narrator in the poem, isn't it?
Yeah, that's true.
This seems to be when Burns is stepping out of telling his tall tale in a pub and to be addressing more the Edinburgh literati, so to speak, possibly.
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