(ii) What are the three phases described in the poem 'A
Photograph'?
Answers
Shirley Toulson’s poem ‘A Photograph’ is a tribute to her mother. The poem describes three stages in the passage of time. In the first stage, the photograph shows the poet’s mother standing at the beach enjoying her holiday with her two girl cousins. She was around 12 years old at that time. The second stage takes us twenty or thirty years later. The mother would laugh at the way she and her cousins were dressed up for the beach holiday. In the third stage, the poet remembers the dead mother with a heavy heart. The photograph revives a nostalgic feeling in the poet.
Answer:
childhood,mother,poet
Explanation:
first phase:dipicts the happy childhood of the poets mother when she was 12
second phase: dipicts the happy moment of the poet with her mother in the beach
third phase: dipicts the poet sadness because for his mother's death