Norman MacCaig is a Scottish poet. I have recently read a poem of his called Aunt Julia. It is a poem that creates a mood of reflection and communicates very strong feeling. In my essay I am going to explore the mood of reflection expressed in this poem.
This poem is about a young boy who is staying at his aunt’s house, he cannot understand her because she speaks Gaelic and he doesn’t know how to. He feels safe when he is there, even at night when it is so dark that it is almost black. By the time he is able to speak a little Gaelic she had past away and this made him angry because he had questions that he wanted to ask her.
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