Nae Hair On't
Nae Hair On't - meaning Summary
Marriage and Petty Disappointment
A speaker recounts marrying a woman and promptly discovering that her pubic area lacks hair. He responds with irritation and disappointment, treating this physical detail as a social or aesthetic failing. The poem uses plain, colloquial voice and bawdy humor to convey the speaker’s petty vanity and surprise. Rather than a sustained erotic or tender depiction, the lines foreground comic disillusionment: marriage as an encounter with unmet expectations and the trivial things that can provoke strong emotional reaction.
Read Complete AnalysesYestreen I wed a lady fair, And ye wad believe me, On her cunt there grows nae hair, That's the thing that grieves me. It vexed me sair, it plagu'd me sair, It put me in a passion, To think that I had wad a wife, Whase cunt was out o' fashion.
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