Question

What is the significance of sea holiday here? Poem photograph class 11

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet says that the sea holiday in the picture was the past of her mother and her mother's laughter was the past of the poet. The poet remembers the laughter of her mother. These lines signify how the poet misses her mother when she looks at that photograph.

Answer 2

Answer:

The sea holiday was a part of the mother's childhood, her past and the mother's laughter is the poet's past as her mother is no more. 'Both' refers to the mother's laughter and the poet's memory of her mother. Both were tinged with loss-the mother had lost those happy childhood days and the poet had lost her mother