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    The Living Photograph

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    The poem describes the poet's grandmother and her declining health over three stanzas. In the first stanza, the grandmother is described as tall and strong holding the poet's hand. The second stanza shows how she became small and frail, forgetting basic tasks before dying. Though gone, the third stanza discusses how looking at a photo of them together as children, the grandmother's smile and presence still feels alive.

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    The Living Photograph

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    The poem describes the poet's grandmother and her declining health over three stanzas. In the first stanza, the grandmother is described as tall and strong holding the poet's hand. The second stanza shows how she became small and frail, forgetting basic tasks before dying. Though gone, the third stanza discusses how looking at a photo of them together as children, the grandmother's smile and presence still feels alive.

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    The poem describes the poet's grandmother and her declining health over three stanzas. In the first stanza, the grandmother is described as tall and strong holding the poet's hand. The second stanza shows how she became small and frail, forgetting basic tasks before dying. Though gone, the third stanza discusses how looking at a photo of them together as children, the grandmother's smile and presence still feels alive.

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    The Living Photograph

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    Zara Ayden
    The poem describes the poet's grandmother and her declining health over three stanzas. In the first stanza, the grandmother is described as tall and strong holding the poet's hand. The second stanza shows how she became small and frail, forgetting basic tasks before dying. Though gone, the third stanza discusses how looking at a photo of them together as children, the grandmother's smile and presence still feels alive.

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    Stanza

    Meanings

    Stanza 1

    The first four lines described the


    grandmother's physical
    My small grandmother is tall there,
    appearance.
    straight-back, white broderie anglaise White hand represents the
    shirt,
    poet's youth, purity, and
    pleated skirt, flat shoes, grey bun,
    innocence.
    a kind, old smile round her eyes.
    Black hand represents that the
    Her big hand holds mine,
    grandmother is experienced, an
    white hand in black hand.
    old soul, and has been through a
    Her sharp blue eyes look her own
    death
    lot, since she's old.
    in the eye.
    The grandmother is dying.

    Stanza 2
    It was true after all that look.
    My tall grandmother became small.
    Her back round and hunched.
    Her soup forgot to boil.
    She went to the awful place
    grandmothers go.
    Somewhere unknown, unthinkable.
    Stanza 3
    But there she is still,
    in the photo with me at three,
    the crinkled smile is still living,
    breathing.

    The grandmother who was a tall


    stature became small, hunched
    and forgetful. The grandmother
    is too ill, she could no longer
    take care of herself and she
    died.
    The afterlife.

    The poet's memory of her


    grandmother is still fresh and
    new. When she looks at the
    photograph, she feels her
    grandmothers presence.

    The Living Photograph

    by Jackie Kay

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