Linguistic and cultural analysis of Hugh MacDiarmid’s poem “The Glen of Silence”

this paper is a linguocultural analysis of the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid's (real name Christopher Murray Grieve) work “The Glen of Silence”. Hugh MacDiarmid is a revolutionary literary writer and is considered the founder of the Scottish Renaissance in literature in the early twentieth century. His work reflects the political and social views of the author who categorized himself as a member of the Scottish Nationalism movement. The innovative methods that Hugh MacDiarmid applied in writing his poems and prose became the basis for the works of writers and poets of the modernist era, finding many followers. The author has attempted to revitalize the national Scottish language and elevate it to the status of the language of literature. This paper provides a brief historical background, cultural and stylistic features of the author's style, as well as a brief biography of the writer. The author of this article has made a lined translation of the analyzed poem into Russian. The conclusion contains the conclusions that were made after studying the available empirical material. The materials of this work can be used in pedagogical activities in the framework of courses on foreign literature and country studies.

poem, modernism, foreign literature, Scotland, linguoculturology, Hugh MacDiarmid