Question

how did the sea holiday become her past how did the poetess and her mother suffer sense of loss​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet looks at her mother's photograph clicked when she had gone on a sea holiday. The poet recalls how her mother would laugh while looking at it. The sea holiday was a part of the mother's childhood, her past and the mother's laughter is the poet's past as her mother is no more.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

This line is from ‘A Photograph’ by Shirley Toulson. The poet looks at her mother’s photograph clicked when she had gone on a sea holiday. The poet recalls how her mother would laugh while looking at it. The sea holiday was a part of the mother’s childhood, her past and the mother’s laughter is the poet’s past as her mother is no more.

‘Both’ refers to the mother’s laughter and the poet’s memory of her mother. Both were tinged with loss-the mother had lost those happy childhood days and the poet had lost her mother. Therefore ‘wry’.