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The poem , ? A Photograph ? is composed in ____________________ ____________________ . Its title is very much appropriate as it reminds the poet of his mother . A photograph is something that ____________________ a certain moment of someone's life . The person might change in course of time but the ____________________ attached with the photograph are ____________________ . In this poem , the poet's mother is no more but the photograph makes her memories come ____________________ . The mother's sweet face or her cousins heavily dressed up for the beach have all changed with time but the ____________________ captured in the photograph still gives happiness to the poet's mother when she views it thirty to forty years later .
The poem is a ____________________ to her mother . The poet is looking at an old photograph of her mother when her mother was a little girl . The photograph captures a moment in a time and also the ____________________ felt when the photograph is taken . The photograph shows her mother playing on a beach accompanied with her two cousins . Her mother is the elder one among the two and she is holding the hands of her other cousins . The ____________________ was windy at that time and their hair was flying on their faces when the uncle took the photograph . All the three children had a happy and smiling ____________________ on their face .
The poet expresses the view that her mother had a sweet face when the poet was not even born . The sea washes away the ____________________ ____________________ of the children . ? Transient feet' refers to the changeable nature of human beings i . e . ? feet' too will change with time . The sea is ____________________ and it has washed away the ____________________ on the sand . Similarly , the photograph and the memories have not changed while the time has changed and so has the poet's mother who is no more .
The poet recalls that when her mother used to take a look at the photograph after thirty - forty years , she would ____________________ hard . By that time , her mother was married and she had a daughter of her own . The poet's mother would laugh and say how her cousins Betty and Dolly were dressed up for the beach .
The sea holiday was the mother's ____________________ and her laughter was the poet's . There had been huge changes in the lives of the mother and the daughter . Both the mother and the daughter had learned to accept the ____________________ their fate has imbibed them with .
The poet's mother is no more and the ____________________ of the little girl in the photograph has silenced the poet . She is left without words . The photograph reminds her of her mother . Shirley Toulson feels sad seeing the photograph of her dead mother while her mother had ____________________ a sense of happiness and laughter when she used to see it . This feeling of loss has silenced the poet .