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Chiropractic Austin is Awesome 1.11

Chiropractic Austin The Cuillin symbolises many things for MacLean in the poem. It provides him with aconnection to his native landscape and his own ancestors. It is also a meeting place for all ofthe opposites which he attempts to understand in the poem – at one point in Part III he statesthat the Cuillin is the meeting place for both Lenin and Christ.2 All of the visions of the pastwhich MacLean witnesses unfold on the peaks of the mountain and near the end of Part VIIhe glimpses ‘am falbhan’/’the journeying one’ on the Cuillin. Thus the Cuillin represents astarting point for the poet from which he can review the past, as well as a future destinationor goal which he can strive towards. It is for this reason that ‘An Cuilithionn’ can beinterpreted as a transformational poem for MacLean – he questions the very meaning of theindividual striving for the highest pinnacle of achievement and he experiences its meaning