A Photograph Question Answer
Class 11 English Poem 1
Question Answer
Here we are providing the question and answers for the 1st Poem of Class 11 English, “A Photograph”. This chapter studies the main Question Answer related to “A Photograph“.
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A Photograph Question Answer, Class 11 English Poem 1 Question Answer
Class 11 english Poem 1 Question answer
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Q1. What does the word 'cardboard' denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
Ans. The word cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper.
This word has been used to indicate the past when photographs were pasted on cardboard and framed with glass front to preserve them.
Q2. What has the camera captured?
Ans. The camera has captured the three girls-the poet’s mother and her two cousins, Betty and Dolly, in their swimming dresses.
Q3. What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
Ans. The sea has not changed over the years.
It reminds us that at one side sea remains unchanged after so many years but human beings face change as the time passes.
Q4. The poetess's mother laughed at the snapshot? What did this laugh indicate?
Ans. This laugh’ indicated her joy at remembering an incident connected with her past life, when she was quite young and free from the tensions and worries of life.
Q5.What is the meaning of the line "Both wry with the laboured ease of loss".
Ans: The line refers to the sea holiday as remembered by her mother and the poet remembering her mother’s laughing face. Both of them are now part of past. Her mother is no more now.
Q6. What does 'this circumstance' refer to?
Ans. This circumstance refers to the death of the poet’s mother.
Q7. The three stanzas depict three different phases. Name them.
Ans. The girlhood of the poet’s mother-the period before the birth of the poet.
Her middle age-the period during the childhood of the poet
Period after the death of the poet’s mother.
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