on the basis of given extract answer the following questions:
The cardboardd shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling, Each one holding one of my mother's hands.
And she the big girl- some twelve years or so. All three stood still to smile through their hair At the uncle with camera. My mother's that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed less. Washed their terribly transient feet.
Q1- what does cardboard denote?
Q2- identify 'me' in the first line?
Q3- who is the big girl in the given stanza?
Q4- who does three refers to?
Q5- who click photograph?
Q6- how can we say that sea has changed less?
Q7- explain terrible transient feet?
Q8- name the poet and the poem?
Hi Prashant.
Here's the answer:
1) The cardboard denotes the frame on which the photograph is mounted.
2) Me in the first line is the author herself who is looking at herself in the photograph.
3) The big girl is author's mother who was 12 back then but eldest among all her cousins.
4) The three include author's mother and her cousins Betty and Dolly.
5) Her mother's uncle clicked the photograph of all three.
6) Us humans being mortal are subject to rapid change and death whereas nature on the other hand is very consistant. Though it may happen that tides may change or leaves turn brown but with the reference frame of our lives, it changes very less.
7) It is true that nothing withstands nature and time. So are her mother's feet impressions on the sand that are transient and will vanish once the waves hit them.
8) Poem: A Photograph
Author: Shirley Toulson
Hope this helps.
Regards.
Here's the answer:
1) The cardboard denotes the frame on which the photograph is mounted.
2) Me in the first line is the author herself who is looking at herself in the photograph.
3) The big girl is author's mother who was 12 back then but eldest among all her cousins.
4) The three include author's mother and her cousins Betty and Dolly.
5) Her mother's uncle clicked the photograph of all three.
6) Us humans being mortal are subject to rapid change and death whereas nature on the other hand is very consistant. Though it may happen that tides may change or leaves turn brown but with the reference frame of our lives, it changes very less.
7) It is true that nothing withstands nature and time. So are her mother's feet impressions on the sand that are transient and will vanish once the waves hit them.
8) Poem: A Photograph
Author: Shirley Toulson
Hope this helps.
Regards.