Question

What does the photograph depict??

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem, The Photograph is about transience of human life, death, and mysteries surroundings them. The poet is looking at the photograph of her mother and missing her. The photograph depicts the scene of her mother’s childhood when she along with her cousins, Betty,  Dolly, and uncle had gone to the beach. The uncle had clicked this photograph.

Many years later after the poet was

born and grown up into a young lady, her mother and  she would look at the photograph; the mother used to laugh at her childhood photograph.

After a few more years, the poet’s

mother died. The poet still preserved that photograph. Now she would look at

the photograph and miss her mother’s laughter at her own photograph. The poet felt the sea-holiday was her mother’s past; and her mother’s laughter had become her past now.

She also makes mention of man’s

transience on the sands of life. When she thinks about all this she becomes miserably quiet with the sadness of separation from her mother.

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Answer 2

The depictions of the poem "A Photograph" are given below.

• The poem "A Photograph" by Shirley Toulson is a loving tribute to her mother.
• The poem depicts the passage of time and the inevitable stages of one's life.
• Childhood, motherhood, and death are the three stages plotted in the poem.
• The photograph is a symbol of memories.
• For the poet, the photograph is a nostalgic piece that carries her back to the good old days of life, when her mother was alive.
• The poem is all about remembrance, nostalgia, loss, and retrospection.
• The poet has made an attempt to show the transient nature of one's life. The photograph of the poet's mother is a symbolic representation of this transience of life.

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