Question

28. "All three stood stil to smile through their hair, At the uncle with the
camera. 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."
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28A. What does the poet mean by smile through their hair'? *
1 point
O (a) It means that a smile was painted on the hair of the photographed girls
O (b) It means that the photographed girls were wearing a mask
O
(c) It means that the hair of the photographed girls were covering their face when they
were smiling
o
(d) It means that the hair of the girl in the photograph was smiling too​

Answer 1

Answer:

Poem: A Photograph

The cardboard shows me how it was

When the two girl cousins went paddling

Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,

And she the big girl – some twelve years or so.

All three stood still to smile through their hair

At the uncle with the camera, 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.

Some twenty- thirty- years later

She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty

And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they

Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday

was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry

With the laboured ease of loss

Now she’s has been dead nearly as many years

As that girl lived. And of this circumstance

There is nothing to say at all,

Its silence silences.

Introduction

The poet describes how deeply she feels the loss of her mother. Her mother has been dead for more than twelve years. The poet recalls how her mother used to look at a photograph and remember her own childhood.

Summary

The poet looks at the photograph of her mother which was taken when her mother was 12 years old. She had gone for a sea holiday with her cousins Betty and Dolly. While they were paddling on the beach, her uncle clicked a photograph. Each of the cousins was holding the hands of the poet’s mother who was the oldest among them. All the three of them stood smiling through their hair while the photo was taken. Her mother had a sweet face, but it was a time before she was born. Years fled past since then. Her mother grew up into an adult. They all underwent changes while the sea stood still.