Question

what is the meaning of the line "both wry with the laboured ease of loss"?​

Answer 1

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It means that it is difficult to put up with loss for the poetess's mother. Her sea holiday was a past which she remembered so fondly and for the poetess, she remembered her mother's laughter as she had lost her mother.

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Answer 2

The line 'both wry with the labored ease of loss' implies that the speaker and her mother both undergo a deplorable sense of loss.

Explanation:

• 'The Photograph' by Shirley Toulson primarily discusses the theme of separation.
• The speaker looks at her mother's childhood photograph and recalls her beautiful smile and fond memories spent with her. This fills the poet with a sense of 'loss' similar to her mother's feeling of 'loss' of her carefree childhood days.
• Thus, there is a similarity in the feeling of 'wry'(disappointment) and 'loss' felt both by speaker(as her mother is dead now) and her mother(as the good old times could never come back).
• They both attempt to 'ease' their pain and sadness of not gaining that time again and moving on feels 'labored' to them. Therefore, they are experiencing mixed emotions('sweetness' of memories but 'bitterness' of not regaining them).

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