Question

What is the meaning of "Both wry with the laboured ease of loss"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Actually both of them suffer a sense of loss. The mother loses her carefree childhood. She can't have those moments of enjoyment again that she once experienced at the beach. She can not be smiling girl of twelve again. This is also poet's loss. Perhaps she will never see that smiling face and experience her laughter again in life. This irony of the situation is that both of them struggle to bear the loss with tolerable.