Impotant questions along with answers from poem: The photograph
Dear student
The following questions may help you :
- What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
- What does ‘this circumstance’ refer to?
- What do you learn about the poet’s mother from the photograph?
- What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the labored ease or loss
- The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?
- What scene from the mother’s childhood been captured in the photograph? Who had taken the photograph?
Regards