Question

1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follows:
a) The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
1) Who is referred as 'her'?
ii) What are 'her past' and 'mine"?
ii) Give the meaning of the word 'wry'.
b) A sweet face,
My mother's, that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed less,
Washed their terribly transient feet.
1) Where are these lines from and who is the poet?
ii) What has not changed much?
iii) Give the meaning of the word 'transient'.
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Answer 1

Answer:

Her is referred to poetess' mother.

Poem-photograph

poet-shirley toulson

the sea has not changed

(that's all I know without book. sorry if it wasn't of much help.)