Question

Read the extract from the poem and answer the questions in brief.

The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling,
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
And she the big girl - some twelve years or so.

Questions:
1) Name the two girl cousins.
2) What does ‘cardboard’ signify?
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Answer 1

Answer:

1) Dolly and Betty

2) the cardboard denotes the photograph that was clicked by poet's mothers uncle.