ASSIGNMENT: POEM 1 ìA PHOTOGRAPHî
Read the extracts from the poem and answer the questions that follow
A. 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 motherís hands, And she the big girl- some twelve years or so. Q1. What does the cardboard refer to?
Q2. Who was the big girl and how old was she?
Q3. How did the cousins go paddling with mother?
B. 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 motherís, that was before I was born
Q1. Who does ëall threeí refer to here?
Q2. Where are they now?
Q3. Why did they smile through their hair?
C Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ. A sweet face, My motherís, that was before I was born
And the sea, which appears to have changed less
Washed their terribly transient feet. Q1. Where was her mother?
Q2. When did this incident take place?
Q3. How is the poet able to remember her motherís childhood?
Q4. What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not?
D Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Some twenty- thirty- years later
sheíd laugh at the snapshot. ìSee Betty
And Dolly,î sheíd say, ìand look how they
dressed us for the beach.î Q1. Who would laugh at the snapshot after twenty ñ thirty years later?
Q2. How did mother remember her past?
Q3. Who were Betty and Dolly?
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