A Photographs (English )

Test Your SelfIntroduction :-The poem "A photographs " is written by Shirley Toulson. In this poem, she recalls her mother and her memories while looking at a childhood photograph when her mother was twelve year old or so. She has been deceased twelve years ago and she can not explain her grief on her mother's loss.          .........   Summary:-The poem is a tribute to the poet's mother. She is looking at an old photograph of her mother which has a frame of card board. The picture has three girls in which the middle one is the oldest and tallest. It is her mother when she was twelve years old or so. Beside her on both sides are her two cousins. Betty and Dolly, who are holding her hands and are younger than her. They went for paddling on a beach holiday. Her uncle took the photograph then. The poet could not help but notice her mother's sweet face. The sea touched her terribly transient feet which depicted that she changed over the years and the sea remained the same.                                   .. . After twenty -thirty years, her mother would at the photograph. She would make the poet look at the photograph and tell her how their parents would dress them up for the beach holiday. The beach holiday was her mother's favorite past memories while her laugh was the the poet's  favorite memory. Both of them lost something which they cherished a lot and yet cannot live that moment again.  Now, the poet 's mother had been dead for the past twelve years, which is the same number as of her age when the photograph was taken then. She can not express the grief that she has from her mothers absence.