V Read the extracts given below and answer the question that follow
Some twenty - thirty years later/She'd laugh at the snapshot/ " See Betty and Dolly." Shid Say and look how they /dressed us for the beach. " The Sea holiday/ was her past, mine is her laughter both wry/with the laboured ease of loss.
(1) What was mother's reaction on seeing the photograph?
(2) How long back did the beach holiday take place?
Answers
Answer:
1 she laughed on seeing the photograph.
Explanation:
2 after some 20 30 years later
Read the extracts given below and answer the question that follow
Explanation:
1) What was mother's reaction on seeing the photograph?
The mother would laugh upon looking at the photograph and tell others to have a look at Betty and Dolly. The photograph was a remnant of the past which was no more and a remembrance of the happiness which had once been.
2) How long back did the beach holiday take place?
The beach holiday had taken around 30 years back.
3) What is the poet's past?
The poet's past was the wry laughter which appeared to have touched the poet's remembrances and memory attached to the photograph.
4) Explain laboured ease of loss
Laboured ease of loss refers to that ease which comes with enduring one's pain for so long which one has got used to carrying around that heavy burden. It is still heavy however one does not take notice of it after having endured it for so long.