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    Class 11 A Photograph

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    The document provides questions and answers about the poem "A Photograph". It includes: 1) The first question asks about the meaning of the word "cardboard" in the poem and the answer explains it refers to how photographs were pasted on thick paper and framed. 2) The second question asks what the camera captured and the answer states it captured the poet's mother with her two cousins by the sea. 3) The third question asks what has not changed over the years and the answer is the waves of the sea, which suggests the changes in humans over time. 4) The fourth question asks what the poet's mother's laugh indicated and the answer is her joy in remembering her past

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    The document provides questions and answers about the poem "A Photograph". It includes: 1) The first question asks about the meaning of the word "cardboard" in the poem and the answer explains it refers to how photographs were pasted on thick paper and framed. 2) The second question asks what the camera captured and the answer states it captured the poet's mother with her two cousins by the sea. 3) The third question asks what has not changed over the years and the answer is the waves of the sea, which suggests the changes in humans over time. 4) The fourth question asks what the poet's mother's laugh indicated and the answer is her joy in remembering her past

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    The document provides questions and answers about the poem "A Photograph". It includes: 1) The first question asks about the meaning of the word "cardboard" in the poem and the answer explains it refers to how photographs were pasted on thick paper and framed. 2) The second question asks what the camera captured and the answer states it captured the poet's mother with her two cousins by the sea. 3) The third question asks what has not changed over the years and the answer is the waves of the sea, which suggests the changes in humans over time. 4) The fourth question asks what the poet's mother's laugh indicated and the answer is her joy in remembering her past

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    Class _11

    Text Book: Hornbill

    Poem-1 A Photograph

    Questions and Answers

    Question 1:
    What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
    Answer:
    The word cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper. This word
    has been used to refer to a practice in the past when photographs were pasted on
    cardboard and framed with glass front to preserve them.

    Question 2:
    What has the camera captured?
    Answer:
    The camera has captured the three girls—the poet’s mother and her two cousins, Betty
    and Dolly, in their swimming dresses with the poet’s mother in the middle and the two
    cousins on either side holding her hands and walking feet in sea water.

    Question 3:

    What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?

    Answer:

    The sea has not changed over the years. Its waves are as fresh, shining and tireless as
    they were years ago. The changelessness of sea reminds us of the changes in human
    face with advancing age.

    Question 4:

    The poetess’s mother laughed at the snapshot? What did this laugh indicate?

    Answer:

    This laugh’ indicated her joy at remembering an incident connected with her past life,
    when she was quite young and free from the tensions and worries of life.
    Question 5:

    What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”.?

    Answer:

    The sea holiday and the laughter of the poet’s mother are incidents of the past. There is
    a sense of loss associated with them. Both are amusing yet disappointing as the state
    of feeling comfortable or relaxed is unnatural or forced one. This sense of loss is quite
    painful to bear.

    Long Answer Question

    Question 1:
    What impression do you form of the poetess and the poetess’s mother after reading the poem A
    Photograph’?
    Answer:
    The poem presents the poet as a sensitive person who is quite affectionate towards her mother
    and is deeply attached to her. She loves ‘her ‘sweet’ face and notes the changes in it as she
    advances in age. She remembers all the incidents connected with her life including her laughter
    on looking at the photograph. She finds it hard to bear her death. The pangs of separation stun
    her to speechlessness.
    The poetess’s mother appears as a physically well formed person with sweet face and beautiful
    smile. She has a friendly temperament and free mixing nature. She has great affection (or her
    two girl cousins and goes with them for a sea-holiday where they put on quaint dresses. She
    poses with them smilingly for a snap. Her laughter on seeing the dresses in the snap shows her
    fine temperament and good humour.

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