Question

explain the contrast given in the last two lines of first stanza of the poem the photograph
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Answer 1

Answer:

which poem dear ,tell me

Answer 2

Answer:

Here are some main points of the answer...

Explanation:

➢ contrast is between the sea and the humans.  

➢ sea: same for all these years, humans: undergone changes.  

➢ grew up and now she had been dead for the past twelve years.

➢ Nature is perennial while human life is temporary or transient.  

➢ uses a transferred epithet (terribly transient feet) in order to make this comparison  and highlight the terribly short-lived life of her mother.