Life is transitory as it offers several joyous and distressing moments in life .The poem A photograph is a clear example of the same .Justify

The photograph is about transience of human life, death and mysteries surrounding them. The poet is looking at the photograph of her mother and missing her .The photograph depicts the scene of her mother's childhood when she along with her cousins and uncle had gone to the Beach .the uncle had clicked this photograph .Many years later after the poet was born and grown up into a lady her mother and she would look at a photograph the mother used to laugh at her childhood photograph .After a few more years ,the poet's mother died .The poet still preserved the photograph .Now she would look at the photograph and miss herd mother's laughter at her own photograph .The poet felt the sea holidays was her mother's past and her mother's laughter had become her past now . She also makes mention of man's transience on the sands of life . When she thinks about all this she become miserably quiet with the sadness of separation from her mother.

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