Question

What does ''this circumstance" refer to?

Answer 1

A fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.

Answer 2

Answer:

This circumstance’ refers to the present situation of the poet wherein the poet is absorbed in the painful memory of her dead mother. Looking at the photograph and thinking of her mother’s laughter, the poet also realises that it has been the same number of years since her mother died as her mother’s age in the photograph.

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