Question

what doés thé word ‘càrdboàrd’ dénote in thé poém ?why haß this word béén used ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

We paste the past pictures on the cardboard to make a collage or to preserve the memories through the photograph.

So the cardboard in this poem is used to denote the past memories of the poetess mother which are sweeter than now because bow her mother is olden and has loaf her cousins.