Question

explain the sea holiday was her past mine is her laughter? in chapter a photograph

Answer 1

the above line means that few yrs ago when the mother was alive, she luked at her photograoh and laughed at the way she dressed up ! the sea holiday in the photograph is her mother's past and the mother;s laughter is her past.. because her mother is no more...

OR

Gone are the childhood days of mother and the sea holiday has become her past, the photograph flashes back to the scene that was captured about 30 years ago. Gone is a carefree laughter of the mother which was love at one time. But now, the laughter of her mother has eventually become a thing of past for the poet. She has silently resigned herself to the fate.