how does the poet feel when she
remembers the sea holiday of her mother
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the poet feels that the loss of her mother is so great and irreparable that when she looks at her mother's photograph and remembers her, she doest not have to express her grief in words the silence of the circumstances (loss of mother) makes her silent
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The poet saw a photograph when was dusting in the storeroom of her mother including her two cousins sisters. The photograph of that sea holiday day on beach of her mother when her uncle was about to click that picture a strong gust of wind blew and there hair spread in air and when the saw each other they all broke up with crackling smiles and at that current moment her uncle click the button. Poet seeing this picture got lost in that moment when sea waves were again and again touching their feets and the footprints of her mother was vanishing through the cool and silent water. Her mother gets disppointed at the loss of her childhood joys. The sea holiday was her mother's past at that time, while her mother's laughter is thepoet's past now asshe was not more with her.
Explanation: The poem, "A Photograph" by Shirley Toulson contrasts the eternal state of nature and the transitory state of human beings. The poet describes a photograph that captures interesting moments of her mother's childhood when she went for a sea holiday. The poet draws a contrast between nature, changing at a snail's pace and the fast changing human life.