Question

ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS X., 2020
ENGLISH
TEXT BOOK :
HORNBILL
Photograph by
irley Toulson
WEEK - 6
The poem is tribute to the poets mother. An old photograph with a cardboard frame which has
three smiling girls at the beach is a favourite childhood memory of her mother. For the poet her
mother laugh was her favourite memory. The mother has been death for twelve years, the
same age she was in the Photograph. The poet fid it hard to express the grief that she has from
her mother's absence.
Read out the poem thoroughly and answer the questions that follow :
1) What has the camera captured?
What has not change over the years? Does this something suggest to you?
3) What does this circumstance” refers to?
2)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.The camera had captured all the three girls alive in it. It has captured the pretty face of the poet's mother who as a girl of twelve at that time. It has also captured the smiling faces of the two girl cousins Betty and Dolly. They are holding the hands of the poet's mother.

2.The sea has not changed over the years. It suggests that the prominent features of nature do not change much. Human beings come and go, but nature always remains.

3.This circumstances” refers to the present mental state of the poet when she has been living so long without her mother. ... In this poem the poet describe how deeply she feels the loss of her mother. Her mother has now been dead for more than 12 years.

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