Sangschaw gan Hugh MacDiarmid. Astudiaeth ar Lyfrgell Barddoniaeth Yr Alban. Bathwyd y gair Albaneg sangschaw gan MacDiarmid ei hun:

‘Sangschaw’ offers a variety of meanings: firstly, a show of strength, a display of the ‘weapons in the armoury’ of the Scots language, its actual and potential range of effects, and in this sense, in 1925, a revolutionary ‘call to arms’ in keeping with the recent violent revolutions in Russia (successful) and Germany (unsuccessful). But ‘schaw’ is a wood, giving ‘wood of songs’, creating a sense of primeval or pagan mystery and ritual: not everything in the revolution is derived from the rationalism of the Enlightenment. Taking it a step further, the word ‘schawe’, to sow, gives a sense of these poems being seeds for a new type of song, and of these songs growing, of being cultivated to produce a new poetry or more generally a new culture – a renaissance.

Dyfyniadau o’r gerdd gan Languagehat.
MacDiarmid a Dadeni Diwylliannol Yr Alban.

Facing the Chair – cerdd Saesneg.

Coffeb Hugh MacDiarmid.

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