A book of poems in Welsh by Aneurin Griffiths, with the title in English translation of A Tribute to My Beloved Brother, Ifor was published on 13 April 1877 by the same Swansea publishing house which had published his other poems. It was published eleven years, less one day, after Ifor was brutally murdered while unsuccessfully defending his mother Angharad from being raped on 14 April 1866. He was thirteen years old. The poems are in the Cywydd style of Welsh poetry. [1]
The poems are elegaic, passionate, visceral, angry and eloquent. Aneurin writes about he and his brother growing up in Llanelli, about them playing together and exploring the countryside.
[1] See http://thanetwriters.com/essay/form/what-is-a-cywydd.
The poems are elegaic, passionate, visceral, angry and eloquent. Aneurin writes about he and his brother growing up in Llanelli, about them playing together and exploring the countryside.
[1] See http://thanetwriters.com/essay/form/what-is-a-cywydd.