Question

1. Explain 'both wry with laboured ease of loss'
Value points:
Laboured ease- oxymoron
For mother sea holiday was past
For poet mother's laughter
Both remember their past with a smile to conceal sadness that none can re-live
on Schools
those lost moments​

Answer 1

“The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.” ... 'Both' refers to the mother's laughterand the poet's memory of her mother. Bothwere tinged with loss-the mother had lostthose happy childhood days and the poet hadlost her mother.