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Lesson Questions & Answers:
Question-1: What does the
‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used ?
Ans: The ‘cardboard’ denotes the
photograph of the poet’s mother and her two cousins in the poem, ‘A
Photograph.’
The
word ‘cardboard’ is used in the poem, the reason is that the photograph is now
so damaged as it is similar or resemble with a cardboard.
Question-2. What has the camera
captured ?
Ans: The camera has captured the
sweet smiles of the poet’s mother and the two girls, the sweet face of his
mother and their holding hands each another in the sea shore. (which was one of
the happiest moment of them.)
3.What has not changed over the
years ? Does this suggest something to you ?
Ans: The poet informs in the poem
that the sea has not changed over the years.
The sea means
that the natural things like the sea are usually not changed by time. But, on
the other hand men or other mortal things are changed by the time.
4.The poet’s mother laughed at
the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?
Ans: The laugh of the poet’s
mother indicates the happiest childhood of her. Also, it refers the joyful
moment where sad; anxiety, worry and other difficulties are not avail.
5.What is the meaning of the
line “Both wry with the labored ease of loss.”
Ans: “Both wry with the labored
ease of loss”, this line indicates that both the poet and his mother are loss
something. The poet has lost his mother’s sweet face and her laughter. On the other hand, the poet’s mother had lost
her joyful childhood.
Or:
“Both wry with the labored ease of
loss”, this line indicates that the sea holiday and the laughter of the poet’s
mother were her past. So, these both are lost at this moment for her.
6. What does “this circumstance”
refer to?
Ans: This circumstance refers the
sorrowful moment of the poet. He has lost his mother, her sweet face and her
laughter. His mother was dead as many
years ago. So, the poet has only silence and silence at this moment.
7.The three stanzas depict three
different phases. What are they ?
Ans:
The first stanza
depicts/refers the happy childhood of her mother which flourishes/provides in
the snapshot of her with the two girls.
The second
stanza depicts the middle age of the poet’s mother when the poet’s mother
laughs at the snapshot by seeing Betty and Dolly and their dresses for the
beach.
The third stanza
depicts the sorrowful moment of the poet. Now, he has not her mother, her sweet
face and her laughter with him. Instead, only a silence is flourishing now.
Additional Questions & Answers:
1. “And she the big girl
---some twelve years or so” Who is the big girl in this line?
Or Who is she?
Ans:- The big girl is the
poet’s mother in this line.
Or: She is the poet’s mother
in this line.
2. “All three stood still to
smile though their hair” Who are “the three” mentioned in this line?
Ans: The three are Betty, Dolly and the poet’s mother that mentioned in
this line.
3. Where did the snapshot
capture?
Ans:- The snapshot was
captured at the uncle’s camera.
4. What did the sea wash?
Ans:-The sea washed Betty,
Dolly and the poet’s mother’s feets.
5. What was the age of the
poet’s mother when the picture was captured?
Ans:- The age was about
twelve years old of the poet mother when the picture was captured.
6. “At the uncle with the
camera a sweet face”, Whose face is mentioned as a “sweet face “here?
Ans :-The poet’s mother is
mentioned as a sweet face here.
7. Who were Betty and Dolly?
Ans:- Betty and Dolly were
cousins of the poet mother.
8. Why/what did the thing
that the author’s mother laughs?
Ans:- The thing was the
snapshot that the author’s mother laughed.
9. “There is nothing to say
at all.” , Why does the poet say like this ?
Ans: The poet says like this
because his mother was dead many years ago. So, now he has nothing to say about
his mother as she is not present at this moment.
10.What is the thing that
stay for the poet now ?
Ans: The poet mentions that
there is nothing to say at all but silences and silences stay now.
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