if you were the poet what title would you give to this poem and why a photograph
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JULIANNE HANSEN, M.A. EDUCATOR
"The Photograph" is a worthy title as it provides the tangible representation of a past that the narrator does not have access to. Her mother, a girl of around twelve, is captured in this photograph wading into the sea with her younger sisters. As she studies the photograph with her daughter, it always brings her joy—this remembrance of her past. She takes joy in this image of her happy childhood and even in the silly ways her parents dressed them together:
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly," she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach."
In the narrator's present, she no longer hears her mother's laughter; unfortunately, her mother has died over a decade prior. However, by looking at this photograph, she can both remember her mother's past and, more importantly, hear her laughter. In her loss, "silence silences," but the photograph now brings happier memories to the narrator, just as it did for her mother, by providing a window to a happier time.