A photograph shirley toulson

1. English Project Work

2. A Photograph - Shirley Toulson

3. Shirley T oulson was born in 20. 1924 in England. she was writer, editor of magazine. she came under the influence of Celtic Christianity. Shirley Toulson has been writing books on the social history of the countryside since 1974. She is a leading authority on ancient tracks and drove roads and is the author of 'The Drovers' Roads of Wales' and 'The Drovers Roads of South Wales'. Her two notable writing are Celtic alternative in 1987 & Celtic year in 1993. after she won prize for mending hill. Shirley Toulson

4. The poet remembers her mother who died about twelve year ago. The poet recalls how her mother used to look at a photograph and remember her own childhood. The photograph was taken when her mother had gone for a sea holidays with her cousins and her uncle. Looking at her mother’s photograph, poet experiences the great loss of her mother. She feels very sad and lonely. Introduction

5. The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling, Each one holding one of my mother’s hands, As she the big girl – some twelve year or so. A Photograph

6. All three stood still to smile through their hair At the uncle with the camera. A sweet face, My mother’s, that was before I was born.

7. And the sea, which appears to have changed less, Washed their terribly transient feet.

8. Some twenty - thirty - years later She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they Dressed us for the beach.”

9. The sea holiday Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry With the laboured ease of loss.

10. Now she’s been dead nearly as many years As that girl lived. And of this circumstance There is nothing to say at all. Its silence silences.