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On the basis of given extract answer the following questions-

The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.

SECOND EXTRACT

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.

Q1- what is the past for poet?

Q2- what is the past for the poet mother?

Q3- explain both wry with the laboured ease of loss?

Q4- what circumstance poet talking about in second stanza?

Q5- explain silence silences/

Q6- who long the girl being dead?

Q7- why does the poet have nothing to say at all?

1) The past represents the loss of her mother for the poet, her presence in the past is now her absence in the present.
2) The past for the poet's mother is the sea holiday she had taken. 
3) The laboured ease of loss refers to the fact that with time, even the heaviest of losses that human beings suffer from and mourn over cease to be overwhelming or overbearing with time. One eases into the labour of loss and time lessens the pain of it. 
4) The poet is talking about the instance of her mother's death.
5) The poet's mother was dead and a photograph cannot record voices, so a silence pervades her which reinforces the silence of her mother's absence. 
6) The 'girl' refers to the girl in the photograph who was the poet's mother and she had long been dead.
7) The poet has nothing to say at all because nothing she can say will change what has already happened. 

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1. The poet's past is her mother's laughter
2. The mother's past is the sea holiday
3. It refers to the losses of the poet and her mother- the poet's mother has lost her childhood while the poet lost her mother. Both remember their past with   a laugh that conceals sadness. They realize that the past cannot be relived.
4. The circumstance the poet talks about refers to her mother's death.
5. The eternal death of the poet's mother seems to silence everything. This silence also expresses human helplessness in matters of death.
6. The girl, the poet's mother, has been dead for 12 years. This is because she was 12 in the photo.
7. The poet's sense of loss at her mother's loss has left her stunned in disbelief. Now only silence prevails over the thoughts of the poet.
 
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1. The poet's past is her mother's laughter
2. The mother's past is the sea holiday
3. It refers to the losses of the poet and her mother- the poet's mother has lost her childhood while the poet lost her mother. Both remember their past with  a laugh that conceals sadness. They realize that the past cannot be relived.
4. The circumstance the poet talks about refers to her mother's death.
5. The eternal death of the poet's mother seems to silence everything. This silence also expresses human helplessness in matters of death.
6. The girl, the poet's mother, has been dead for 12 years. This is because she was 12 in the photo.
7. The poet's sense of loss at her mother's loss has left her stunned in disbelief. Now only silence prevails over the thoughts of the poet.
 
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