Question

Explain: The sea holiday washer past , mine her laughter .

Answer 1

By this the poet want to say that the sea holiday was her past i.e her memories to which see would laugh. But now she is not there only her memories and laughter is present in the poet's memories. This is poet's past.

Answer 2

The beach holiday is over, and my daughter is:

• Shirley Toulson's poem 'A Photograph' is a tribute to her mother.
• The poem describes three stages over time.
• In the first scene, the picture shows the poet's mother standing on the beach enjoying a holiday with her two daughters-in-law.
• She was 12 years old at the time.
• The second phase takes us twenty or thirty years later.
• My mother laughed at the way she and her cousins ​​dressed during the beach holiday.
• In the third scene, the poet remembers his late mother with a heavy heart.
• The picture evokes an unpleasant feeling in the poet.