Duncan Davidson
Duncan Davidson - meaning Summary
Playful Erotic Rural Encounter
This short Scots poem presents a bawdy, comic vignette of a rural sexual encounter. Using dialect and blunt imagery, Burns portrays Meg and Duncan in a playful, physical exchange centered on a muff and a stolen pintle. The tone is humorous and earthy rather than sentimental; the poem foregrounds bodily desire and mutual gratification within a folk setting. Its language and scenarios reflect popular, ribald storytelling rather than formal lyric reflection, making the poem a brief, ribald slice of vernacular sex comedy in Burns’s register.
Read Complete AnalysesThere was a lass, they ca'd her Meg, An' she gaed o'er the muir to spin; She fee'd a lad to lift her leg, They ca'd him Duncan Davidson. Meg had a muff and it was rough, Twas black without and red within, An' Duncan, case he got the cauld, He stole his highland pintle in. Meg had a muff, and it was rough, And Duncan strak tway handfu' in; She clasp'd her heels about his waist, "I thank you Duncan! Yerk it in!!!" Duncan made her hurdies dreep, In Highland wrath, then Meg did say; O gang he east, or gang he west, His ba's will no be dry today.
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