When I was a pupil at Fisghguard County Secondary School, our Welsh teacher Geraint Davies (known to all the pupils as “Dai Welsh“) used to give us a poem on Monday to learn by Friday, and in the Friday lesson we had to write out the poem as correctly as possible. Any forgotten or misspelled [...]
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Y Llwynog (The Fox) – a poem
Posted in Poetry, Wales, tagged A Sunny Summer's Day, Fox, Humanism, Poetry, R. Williams-Parry, Shooting Star on 15/05/2012 | 2 Comments »
“Hon” (This) – a poem
Posted in Poetry, tagged Nationalism, Patriotism, Poetry, Rhyd Ddu, Snowdon, T. H. Parry Williams, Wales on 18/10/2011 | 5 Comments »
I thought I would post one of my favourite Welsh poems today. It is quite a famous poem amongst Welsh speakers, written by T. H. Parry-Williams(1887-1975). I studied the poetry of his first cousin R. Williams-Parry for Welsh A-level, specifically Williams-Parry’s volume of poetry “Yr Haf a cherddi eraill” (The Summer and other poems). T. [...]
