What the main 'message of the poem "A photograph".
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Explanation:
'A Photograph' by Shirley Toulson highlights the memories associated with a photograph. The poetess looks at her mother's photograph when she went for a holiday with two of her cousins. She remembers how her mother laughed at the way they were dressed for the beach. Now, after so many years of her mother's death, she feels the sea holiday was her mother's past and her mother's smile is her past. She finds the loss and pain inevitable and inexpressible. Hence, the poem is woven around the pain that we feel at the loss of our dear ones, yet we have to live with it as a part of life.
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The theme of the poem is loss, memory and the transience of life. It explores how people may die but in a strange way they continue to live on in the form of memories. These memories are not just restricted to one's head but can also attain a tangible form such as photograph.
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