Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
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.
(a) Name the Poet and the Poem.
(b) 'Its silence silences.' Identify the Figure of speech.
(c) Why there is silence all around?
(d) Who has been dead nearly as many years?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)The title of the poem is 'Photograph' and it is written by Shirley Toulson.

b) Repetition-The word silence is repeated for poetic effect

c)Because she's been dead

d)The poet's mother has been dead nearly as many years