Notes about Taid’s Funeral – (Poem is not on website)<\/p>\n
A brief note appears below, to set the poem in context for A-level Literature students. I will add a Q & A section if suitable questions arise.<\/p>\n
Taid is a Welsh word for Grandfather. My Taid died when I was about 2 years old. One day when I was about 18, searching for something in a drawer, I found a scrap of the dress I had worn as a two-year old child on that long ago day. Suddenly, in a flash, I remembered the funeral. In the poem I struggle to remember more details from that day and to understand what I remembered. Yet the images remain a puzzle, and the child\u2019s eye view of them renders them merely mysterious to the adult mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Notes about Taid’s Funeral – (Poem is not on website) A brief note appears below, to set the poem in context for A-level Literature students. I will add a Q & A section if suitable questions arise. Taid is a Welsh word for Grandfather. My Taid died when I was about 2 years old. One… Continue reading Taid’s Funeral<\/span>