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    The tone of the poem A Photograph is sad and melancholy. The poet memorises her dead mother who again remembers her lost youth. Both are sad. Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    The tone of the poem A Photograph is sad and melancholy. The poet memorises her dead mother who again remembers her lost youth. Both are sad.

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    The poem A Photograph is written in the memory of poet's mother who goes into reminiscence after seeing an old photo framed in cardboard. In the photo, there are three people, poet's mother and two of her cousins who are holding poet's mother's hands. The photo was taken when poet's mother was 12 yeRead more

    The poem A Photograph is written in the memory of poet’s mother who goes into reminiscence after seeing an old photo framed in cardboard. In the photo, there are three people, poet’s mother and two of her cousins who are holding poet’s mother’s hands. The photo was taken when poet’s mother was 12 years old.

    The poet then memorises how her mother laughed seeing her photo of her youth. But deep inside, she was sad because her youth was gone. Now, in the present, the poet’s mother is no more and she is remembering her (mother’s) laugh and missing her.

    So the whole poet is about loss and grief because of it. Both poet and her mother laugh because of their old memories. But ironically both are sad because they have lost something.

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    The sea is immortal and never changes unlike humans who are short lived and die. Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    The sea is immortal and never changes unlike humans who are short lived and die.

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    The reference to the sea, in the poem A Photograph is important because the poet is trying compare and contrast the immortality of sea with the mortality of humans. Throughout the years, the sea has not changed, but poet's mother grew up then died and became a memory. The time has influence over humRead more

    The reference to the sea, in the poem A Photograph is important because the poet is trying compare and contrast the immortality of sea with the mortality of humans. Throughout the years, the sea has not changed, but poet’s mother grew up then died and became a memory. The time has influence over humans life but not on the sea which is timeless.

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    The poet tells that the sea is eternal. it does not change because time has no effect on it. On the other hand, human life is transient i.e. short and temporary. In the poet, the sea remains as is but poet's mother loses her youth and finally dies. Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    The poet tells that the sea is eternal. it does not change because time has no effect on it. On the other hand, human life is transient i.e. short and temporary. In the poet, the sea remains as is but poet’s mother loses her youth and finally dies.

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    Personification has been used in the phrase "the cardboard shows me....". Here human characteristics have been given to the cardboard. Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    Personification has been used in the phrase “the cardboard shows me….”. Here human characteristics have been given to the cardboard.

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    The poet is speechless in the end because she cannot express her grief and sorrow over the loss of her mother whom she loved a lot. She has learnt to live with this pain. Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    The poet is speechless in the end because she cannot express her grief and sorrow over the loss of her mother whom she loved a lot. She has learnt to live with this pain.

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    Poet's mother loses her youth while the poet loses her mother in the end (as she dies). Play quiz on A Photograph Summary of A Photograph

    Poet’s mother loses her youth while the poet loses her mother in the end (as she dies).

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    Oxymoron is the literary device used in the phrase "laboured ease of loss". Oxymoron is a literary device in which two contrasting and contradictory things are brought together. In the poem, laboured refers to struggle which is opposite of ease. Here, this phrase means that the poet, like her motherRead more

    Oxymoron is the literary device used in the phrase “laboured ease of loss”. Oxymoron is a literary device in which two contrasting and contradictory things are brought together. In the poem, laboured refers to struggle which is opposite of ease.

    Here, this phrase means that the poet, like her mother, has learnt to live with the loss of their dear things i.e. poet’s mother has learnt to live with the sorrow of losing her youth while poet herself has learnt to live with the sorrow of her mother.

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    The first loss is poet's mother's youth. While seeing the photograph, her mother laughs but deep inside she is sorrowful as she has lost the most precious time of her life. On the other hand, for poet, the death of her mother is a loss. She is missing that laugh of her mother. Play quiz on A PhotogrRead more

    The first loss is poet’s mother’s youth. While seeing the photograph, her mother laughs but deep inside she is sorrowful as she has lost the most precious time of her life.

    On the other hand, for poet, the death of her mother is a loss. She is missing that laugh of her mother.

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