Question

Now she's been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences.
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. Who has been dead nearly as many years?
3 What do you understand by that girl'?
4. Why is there silence? Explain.
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Answer 1

Answer:

In the above mentioned lines the poet is saying that her mother has been dead for nearly twelve years, which is also the age of the girl in the photograph. Her loss is so severe that she has nothing to say at all about her mother's demise. She can not hear her mother anymore, she can only remember her laughter.

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