Fill in the Blanks A PhotographOnline version Summary by Prem Kumar J 1 past tribute eternal alive silence weather verse unchangeable losses emotions laugh expression footprints moment derived memories blank feet captures transient The poem , " A Photograph " is composed in . Its title is very much appropriate as it reminds the poet of his mother . A photograph is something that a certain moment of someone's life . The person might change in course of time but the attached with the photograph are . In this poem , the poet's mother is no more but the photograph makes her memories come . The mother's sweet face or her cousins heavily dressed up for the beach have all changed with time but the captured in the photograph still gives happiness to the poet's mother when she views it thirty to forty years later . The poem is a to her mother . The poet is looking at an old photograph of her mother when her mother was a little girl . The photograph captures a moment in a time and also the felt when the photograph is taken . The photograph shows her mother playing on a beach accompanied with her two cousins . Her mother is the elder one among the two and she is holding the hands of her other cousins . The was windy at that time and their hair was flying on their faces when the uncle took the photograph . All the three children had a happy and smiling on their face . The poet expresses the view that her mother had a sweet face when the poet was not even born . The sea washes away the of the children . ? Transient feet' refers to the changeable nature of human beings i . e . ? feet' too will change with time . The sea is and it has washed away the on the sand . Similarly , the photograph and the memories have not changed while the time has changed and so has the poet's mother who is no more . The poet recalls that when her mother used to take a look at the photograph after thirty - forty years , she would hard . By that time , her mother was married and she had a daughter of her own . The poet's mother would laugh and say how her cousins Betty and Dolly were dressed up for the beach . The sea holiday was the mother's and her laughter was the poet's . There had been huge changes in the lives of the mother and the daughter . Both the mother and the daughter had learned to accept the their fate has imbibed them with . The poet's mother is no more and the of the little girl in the photograph has silenced the poet . She is left without words . The photograph reminds her of her mother . Shirley Toulson feels sad seeing the photograph of her dead mother while her mother had a sense of happiness and laughter when she used to see it . This feeling of loss has silenced the poet .
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