The cardboard shows me how it wasWhen 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. All three stood still to smile through their hairAt the uncle with the camera. A sweet face,My mother’s, that was before I was born.And the sea, which appears to have changed less, Washed their terribly transient feet
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 1 A Photograph Poem
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English
A. Infer the meanings of the following words from the context
Paddling Transient
Now, look up the dictionary to see if your inference is right.
Answer:
Paddling Transient wading in the water in bare feet temporary
Dictionary Meanings
Paddling Transient walking through shallow water in bare feet for only a short time
B. THINK IT OUT
Question 1.
What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
Answer:
The word ‘cardboard’ in the poem refers to the photograph of the poet’s mother enjoying a sea-holiday with her two cousins when she was twelve years old.
The cardboard stands for the frame that supports and holds the photograph. It signifies that life is transient and what remains is an insignificant piece of paper.
Question 2.
What has the camera captured?
Answer:
The camera has captured some happy childhood moments of the poet’s mother when she has gone for a sea holiday with her two cousins Dolly and Betty. The girls were paddling in the water and enjoying the moment. The photograph clicked by the mother’s uncle shows the girls’ innocent smiling faces while their hair was flying over their faces.
Question 3.
What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
Answer:
Time has moved on, but what has not changed over the years is the sea. It is immortal. It appears to be the same today as it looked in the old photograph. It suggests the eternity of the sea. It also brings out the transient nature of man when compared to nature and its objects. The pretty faces and the feet of the three girls are ‘terribly transient’ or mortal when compared to the unchangeable and immortal sea.
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