New Poem Packet!

The poem I picked is "Unveiling." I read it and I was kind of afraid for the writer. Her whole family has passed away and she goes to visit them and feels left out? I know she's trying to say she misses them but it's rather a creepy way to do it. She's relating how they sat at the dinner table to how they are buried. When I read the part about family dinners I remember how at Thanksgiving the kids had their own table so I can see how she can feel "left out," but this is a totally different left out; she feels like she's left out because she's alive? Than I started to think about the title. What was being unveiled? The secret that they all were keeping from her? Then I thought about the funerals I had gone to. My first one was when my cousin Nicole passed away I was 7 years old and she was 8. Back then I had no idea that I had just lost one of my greatest friends. Being a child at a funeral there is a kind of secret about it because you can't really understand what's happening. Or for instance when my grandma passed away and my nephew wasn't really upset I was angry because I had lost someone very special to me. He was 5 years old he didn't know what was going on. That's what the author is trying to portray here. She is trying to show how being young you can't really understand the aspect of death or losing someone forever. Not until you grow up are these things "unveiled" to you.