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
. In the first line ‘All three’ stand for……..
a. The uncle, the poetess and her mother.
b. The uncle, the poetess’ mother and the cousin.
c. The poetess’ mother, the poetess and the uncle.
d. The two cousins and the poetess’ mother.
2. Which poetic devices are there in ‘stood still to smile’ & ‘Washed their terribly transient
feet’ respectively?
a. Alliteration and Metaphor respectively.
b. Simile and Transferred Epithet respectively.
c. Alliteration and Transferred Epithet respectively.
d. Alliteration and Simile respectively.
3. What has made the sea change less?
a. The sea is natural and immortal
b. The sea is big and huge
c. The sea is full of water and waves
d. The sea is in the picture only
Answers
Extracts from the Poem
1. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
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.
Q. What does the cardboard refer to?
Ans. The cardboard refers to the childhood photograph of her mother.
Q. Who was the big girl and how old was she?
Ans. The big girl was the poet’s mother. She was then twelve years old.
Q. How did the cousins go paddling with mother?
Ans. The girl cousins went paddling with mother holding her hand.
2. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
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
Q. Who does ‘all three’ refer to here?
Ans. ‘all three’ refers to the poet’s mother and her two cousins.
Q. Where are they now?
Ans. They have gone to the seashore. They are paddling in the water.
Q. Why did they smile through their hair?
Ans. They smiled through their hair because they were posing for a photograph.
3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
……………………….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.
Q. Where was her mother?
Ans. Her mother was on the sea shore with her cousins and posing for a photograph.
Q. When did this incident take place?
Ans. This incident took place when she was twelve years old.
Q. How is the poet able to remember her mother’s childhood?
Ans. The poet is able to remember her mother’s childhood when she looks into the photograph of her mother.
Q. What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not?
Ans. The sea has stood the onslaught of time. It is still the same. However, her mother and her cousins underwent changes. Her mother grew up to be an adult and now she is no more.
4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
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.”
Q. Who would laugh at the snapshot after twenty – thirty years later?
Ans. The poet’s mother would laugh at the snapshot after twenty – thirty years later.
Q. How did mother remember her past?
Ans. Mother remembered her past with nostalgia.
Q. Who were Betty and Dolly?
Ans. Betty and Dolly were her cousins who had gone with her to the beach for paddling.
5. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
………………………The sea holiday
was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss
Q. Who went for the sea holiday in the past?
Ans. The poet’s mother had gone for the sea holiday in the past when she was a young girl.
Q. What does ‘both’ refer to?
Ans. Both’ refers to the poet’s mother remembering her past sea holiday as well as the poet remembering her mother’s laughter.
Q. How does the poet feel when she remembers her mother?
Ans. The poet experiences great sorrow when she remembers her mother who left for heavenly abode twelve years ago.
Q. What does the poet compare her laughter to and why?
Ans. The mother’s laughter that used to echo in the house when she was alive has now become the poet’s past. The comparison is given in order to remember the mother with fondness while looking at her photograph.
6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
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.
Q. When did the poet’s mother die?
Ans. The poet’s mother died about twelve years ago.
Q. What does the poet remember of that girl?
Ans. She remembers how much her mother had changed from a young girl. She also remembers the sweet laughter of her mother.
Q. Explain: ‘Its silence silences.’
Ans. The loss of her mother is too deep for the poet. Now she has nothing to say at all. The silence of the whole situation silences the poet and leaves her quiet.
Q. What is ‘this circumstance’?
Ans.This circumstance means the death of her mother.
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Answers:
1) d. The two cousins and the poetess’ mother.
2) c. Alliteration and Transferred Epithet respectively.
3) a. The sea is natural and immortal
- "All three" stands for poetess' mother and her two cousins because during their childhood, they visit a beach where their Uncle takes a photograph of them.
- Alliteration is used in "Stood still to smile" and Transferred Epithet is used in "Washed their terribly transient feet."
- "But, the sea remains the same", In this line, the poetess says that the sea has changed less over the years because it is natural and immortal.
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