Question

What does the word cardboard mean in the poem why it has been used?

Answer 1

Is this a question from the poem "a photograph" ?

Answer 2

Answer:

Hey mate here is your answer.....

The cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper.This word had been used to refer to a practice in the past when photographs were pasted on cardboard and framed with glass front to preserve them.

Hope it helps you....

It's Shivika Tiwari.....