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.
Questions:
a) Name the poem and the poet.
b) Who has been dead and how long?
c) What does the poet remember of ‘that girl’?
d) How does the poet feel about ‘this circumstances’?
e) Explain: ‘Its silence silences’.
Answers
b)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
c) To the mother, the little girl was the past that was true a long time back just as the mother was a living reality to the poet years back
e)The silence silences means the loss of her mother's death. Its silence refers to mother's death and silence refers to make more silence. The sentence "Its silence silences "here refers that Death is already silent. 'THE SILENCE SILENCES' is used.
Given: A paragraph from the category eleven literary composition.
Find: Answer the subsequent queries.
Solution:
a) The name of the literary composition is "A Photograph".
The name of the writer is "Shirley Toulson".
b) Poetess's mother has been died over twelve years past.
c) The writer remembers regarding the childhood of her mother by looking the photograph.
d) Circumstances refers to the status of the writer. She feels really unhappy and lonely while not her mother.
e) The which means of "Its silence silence" is that the truth and mystery of the poet’s mother’s death fills him with disappointment. The constant pain she experiences on account of her loss makes her silent.
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