What is the 'laboured ease of loss' in the poem 'A Photograph'?
Answers
the line is taken from 'A Photograph' written by Shirley Toulson.
Explanation:
The poet's mother had been out on a beach holiday,years back and felt nostalgic about it, similar to what the poet felt when she re-lived the memories of her dead mother. The memories in each case were beautiful but it was a painful effort to recall the time that has so easily slipped away.The poetic device used in this line is Oxymoron.
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The expression 'laboured ease of loss is an oxymoron. According to Oxford Dictionary, an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox.
The phrase means that the poet has to accept the loss. The poet's mother has lost her youth and has learned to survive by suffering it, according to the poem. On the other hand, the poet has learned to cope with the loss of her mother.
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