Question

7. How has the poet described her mother's face and the sea?​

Answer 1

This question is from the poem A Photograph by Shirley Toulson. about transience of human life, death, and mysteries surroundings them. The poet is looking at the photograph of her mother and missing her.

The poet feels her mother's face, which was once sweet, changed with the passage of time. However, the sea in the poem is unchanged.

Answer 2

It is described as sweet and calm.

• The question has been asked from the poem The photograph by Shirley Toulson.
• The poet is able to remember her mother's childhood after she sees one of her mother's photographs. The photograph was of her mother with her two cousins at a beach, enjoying a holiday.
• The face is calm and sweet. The sea had withstood the onslaught of time, however, the poet's mother and her cousins have not.