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This idea has important implications in MacLean’s poem for not only does it insinuate thatthe land is female, it also suggests that the land is affected by human action – there is aninference that if power is placed on the wrong person(s) the suffering of the masses ismirrored in the suffering of the land as MacLean shows when the Cuillin is felt to shake withthe cries of the tortured.While I agree with Ní Annracháin’s reading I suspect that there is another level presentwithin the poem regarding MacLean’s relationship with the mountain. MacLean is physicallyexperiencing the Cuillin – his hands are grasping the ‘body’ of the mountain to assist hisclimb and his body becomes strangely synchronized to the shape of the Cuillin. He is formingan understanding with something outside of himself – the ‘(m)Other’: Austin Back Pain