Question

What has not changed over the years ? Does this suggest something to you ? (A photograph .)

Answer 1

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The given line is about the chapter "A photograph" by Shirley Toulson. This poem describes the feeling of a son whose mother passed away and all that he had now is her photograph with her cousins when she was at an age of 12.

The sea hasn't changed over the years. Since it had remained the same. The memories and the person associated with them changed but the sea remains same. It haven't changed with time as the poet's mother died and it changed life.

The poet keeps on looking at the picture and remember her mother.

Answer 2

This question is from the poem A photograph by Shirley Toulson. The poem is about a daughter reminiscing her mother in the memories captured in images. She has lost her mother and is missing her a lot, she finds an image of her mother and looks at it thinking about the life her mother lived.

The photograph is clicked on a beach with her mother's cousins when they were younger. The poet says that over the years, her mother's cousins grew old, her mother grew over, and eventually died, but the ocean did not. The ocean still lies there today, as young as it seemed years back.

So, the poet says that nature, that gives pleasure to humans, that helps them make memories, is immortal while human beings are mortal.