Summary of the poem photograph?
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A photograph descries 3 stages. In the first stage, the photograph shows the poet's mother standing at the each enjoying her holiday ith her two girl cousins. She was 12 or so at that time. The second stage takes us twenty or thirty years later. The motehr would laugh at the way she and her cousins Betty and Dolly were dressed up for each holidays. In the third stage, the poet remembers the mother with a heavy heart. The photograph revives a nostargic feeling in the poet.
Brief Summary
A Book by Shirley ToulsonThe poet is looking at her mother's photograph which is indeed an old one. With it she can see how her mother looked when she was a little girl of twelve. THe photo shows her on a beach with her two girl cousins ho are younger than her, holding her hand. It might have een windy at that time that their hair was flying on their faces when the uncle took the photograph. All the three as smiling through their flying hair. Looking at the photograph, the poet says that her mother had a sweet face, but it was a time before the poet was born. The sea was washing their feet. The poet says that the sea has changed only a little but change has come about who's feet it was washing.
After 30 or 40 years, the mother would take out the photograph and take a look at it. By that time, she was married and had a daughter. She would laugh a little and says "Look at Betty and Dolly, see how they have dressed for the beach". By now, she can only remember those days. A huge change has come about her and she is no longer that small innocent girl of twelve.
After some years, the poet's mother dies. Now the poet remembers her mother's laughter, for her it is a thing of past.
That's why she says "the sea holiday as her past and mine is her laughter". Because just like the mother remembers her old days, now the poet can rememer her in that way only. However in course of time, the two of them learnt to live ith their losses. The pay of the losses had made a permanent impression in their wry faces. The poet says that her mother had been dead and no she feels herself in a situation that there is nothing to be said about but only emptiness. The silence of this situation sileances her. In other words, she is left speechless. The fate has killed all the feelings in her.
A Photograph
- Shirley Toulson
'A Photograph' is a poem written by Shirley Toulson. In this poem there is a photograph which is pasted on a cardboard. This snap has three faces on it. All of them are girls. The middle girl is the tallest and eldest and holding hands with two other girls both on each of her sides. This tallest girl is Poetess's mother. And the two girls are Betty and Dolly. Their feet were drowned by the sea water. This tells the author that the sea has not changed yet but her mother gets changed. This photograph is taken before the poetess was born. Her mother is on a beach holiday with her family.
In that picture her mother is twelve years old or so. She is looking very pretty. According to the poetess after twenty-thirty years her mother looks at the photograph and tells the author how her parents would dress them up for taking to beach. One of the favourite memories of her mother is the beach holiday while the author's favourite is her mother's laugh.
Now her mother is no more, she is dead. The author is feeling lonely and missing her. She can't express her grief.