PHOTOGRAPH - FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH NOTES - CLASS 09 - KSEEB
Poem- 10
PHOTOGRAPH
SHIRLEY TOULSON
Comprehension:
C1. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two each:
1) How many people are there in the
photograph?
Ans: There are three people in the photograph.
2) How is the poet related to the people in
the photograph?
Ans: The people in the photograph are the poet’s mother and her cousins, Betty and Dolly.
3) Who was taking the snapshot?
Ans: Uncle was taking the snapshot.
4) Is the mother described in the photo
alive?
Ans: No, the mother described in the photo is dead.
5) Which aspect of the mother does the poet
like very much?
Ans: The poet likes her mother’s smile and her pretty face.
C2. Discuss the answers for the following questions
with your partner and then write down in your notebook.
1) Why does the writer say
“And of
this circumstance
There
is nothing to say at all.
Its
silence silences”?
Ans: “And of this circumstance, there is nothing to say at all. Its silence silences”. Here the poet represents that her mother was not alive and she felt so lonely at that moment that she was unable express anything and she became completely quite that she was silence. She was equal to dumb, her feelings and emotions had died. And the circumstance of her mother death made her silence. There is information, why she was in silence. She found herself silence when she faced the circumstance of the death, she was not having anything to utter and express her emotions or feelings. And even she was unable talk about her mother death. Overall its represent that death of the mother had made her completely silence.
2) Does the poet notice any change in the
mother after the poet was born? What do you think could have made the change in
the mother’s face?
Ans: Yes, the poet noticed changes in the mother’s face after she was born. Life had so many ups and downs, which could be because of painful incidents or difficulties faced in life. Age and poor health also made charmless of the face. When poet took photograph to see it was old one. She remembered how her mother looked when she was child. In that photo there were totally three people and two of them were cousins who were younger than her. It might be windy that they were holding their hands and her hair were flying. Their beautiful smile gave a glow that photograph. Poet’s mother had a pretty face, as then time had changed everything and her face also had changed by the course of time. For the poet her mother’s smile had become a thing of the past. Whenever she remembered her mother she would see that photograph.
3) Why are the feet described as ‘transient feet’?
Ans: The feet are described as transient feet because it drove back momentary period where everything about life is not lasting for long. A small incident is also transient. If anything is permanent around us is nature. The poem led to transitory nature of life, abrupt unforeseen occurrence is able to also indicate temporary everything. Here in the photograph all three were holding hands when sea washes their terribly transient feet. Here the word “transient” means momentary; not lasting for long.
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