"The sea holiday was her past.mine is her laughter .both wry with the laboured ease of loss plzz explain this line
heyyoo....this stanza means that....as uh know from the poem that poet's mom has passed away...but the poet is missing her mom...by seeing the potrait...in that potrait...there is poets mom nd her cousins dolly nd betty r there...so she's saying that if her mom would have been alive then she would be saying...that see how betty nd dolly are dressed....but now as her mom is not alive ..nd now the sea holiday of ?em is their past nd the laughter in the potrait is her present....sooo......the poetess is sad about the fact that her mother's laughter is history. Her mother feels the same for her childhood days. The word 'wry' here means disappointment. Both of them are disappointed and dejected over their loss. I HOPE UH UNDERSTOOD THE EXPLAINATION