Question

...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.
a) When did this incident take place?
b) How is the port able to remember her mother's childhood?
c) What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not?

Answer 1

The correct answers are -

a. The incident took place 30 years ago, when the poet's mother was on a holiday at the beach, with her cousins.

b. 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.

c. The sea had withstood the onslaught of time, however the poet's mother and her cousins have not.

Answer 2

Answer:

this incident takes place 30 years ago