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what does the cardboard denote in the poem photograph ?

 The cardboard refers to the old photo frame that holds the picture of the poet's mother.

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The word 'cardboard' means a very stiff and thick paper. here the cardboard is a part of the frame that keeps the photograph intact.its use in the poem is ironical.it keeps the photograph of the twelve-year old girl safe who herself was 'terribly transient'

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The word cardboard here in the poem denotes the photograph itself. It has been used in the poem because in those days, photographs used to be fixed to a cardboard, and hung on the wall.

Ans 2. Both here refers to the poets mother recollecting her childhood days at the sea holiday and the poet remembering her mothers laughing face. Both these situations belong to the past because her mother is alive no more.
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