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    The document contains short answers to questions about a poem. 1) The word "cardboard" refers to the stiff material in the frame holding a photograph of the poet's mother taken when she was 12 years old, now deceased. 2) The camera captured the poet's mother and her two girl cousins on the beach during a childhood sea holiday. 3) The sea, in contrast to the human subjects, has not changed over the years, suggesting the transient nature of life compared to eternal nature. The summary provides the key details about the word "cardboard", what was captured in the photograph, and what contrast is drawn between what has and has not changed over the years according to the document

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    The document contains short answers to questions about a poem. 1) The word "cardboard" refers to the stiff material in the frame holding a photograph of the poet's mother taken when she was 12 years old, now deceased. 2) The camera captured the poet's mother and her two girl cousins on the beach during a childhood sea holiday. 3) The sea, in contrast to the human subjects, has not changed over the years, suggesting the transient nature of life compared to eternal nature. The summary provides the key details about the word "cardboard", what was captured in the photograph, and what contrast is drawn between what has and has not changed over the years according to the document

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    The document contains short answers to questions about a poem. 1) The word "cardboard" refers to the stiff material in the frame holding a photograph of the poet's mother taken when she was 12 years old, now deceased. 2) The camera captured the poet's mother and her two girl cousins on the beach during a childhood sea holiday. 3) The sea, in contrast to the human subjects, has not changed over the years, suggesting the transient nature of life compared to eternal nature. The summary provides the key details about the word "cardboard", what was captured in the photograph, and what contrast is drawn between what has and has not changed over the years according to the document

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    The document contains short answers to questions about a poem. 1) The word "cardboard" refers to the stiff material in the frame holding a photograph of the poet's mother taken when she was 12 years old, now deceased. 2) The camera captured the poet's mother and her two girl cousins on the beach during a childhood sea holiday. 3) The sea, in contrast to the human subjects, has not changed over the years, suggesting the transient nature of life compared to eternal nature. The summary provides the key details about the word "cardboard", what was captured in the photograph, and what contrast is drawn between what has and has not changed over the years according to the document

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    SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

    1) What does the word 'cardboard ' denote in the poem? Why has this
    word been used? 
    Answer: The word 'cardboard’ suggests a very stiff cardboard. Here the
    cardboard is a part of the frame that keeps the photograph intact. Its use
    in the poem is ironical. It keeps the photograph of that twelve-year-old
    girl safe who herself was “terribly transient”. She had died years ago. But
    the sea is unchanged.
    2) What has the camera captured?
    Answer: The camera has captured all the three girls when they had gone
    for sea holiday. It has captured the pretty face of the poetess’ mother
    who was twelve year old. The camera has captured the smiling faces of
    two girl cousins Betty and Dolly. They were holding the hands of the
    poetess’ mother in their hands.
    3) What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something
    to you?
    Answer: The sea has not changed over the years. It brings out the
    ‘transient' nature of man when compared to nature and its elements.
    Time spares none. The pretty faces and the feet of the three girls are
    'terribly transient' and they had grown older when compared to the
    unchangeable sea.
    4) The poetess’ mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh
    indicate?
    Answer: The poetess’ mother laughed at the snapshot that was taken
    years ago. In the photograph she as well as her girl cousins stood at the
    beach. She laughed at the way all of them were dressed up for the
    beach. Perhaps they looked funny in their swimming dresses. Her laugh
    indicates that she was very happy to remember her childhood memories.
    5) What is the meaning of the line "Both wry with the laboured ease of
    the loss"?
    Answer: Both the Poetess’ mother and the Poet suffer a sense of loss.
    The mother has lost her childhood memory and experience of her past.
    For the Poetess the smile of her mother has become a thing of the past.
    Ironically, both suffer to bear this loss with ease.
    6) What does "the circumstance" refer to?
    Answer: 'This circumstance' refers to the death of the poet's mother. The
    photograph of the dead mother brings sad feelings in the poetess. But
    she has nothing to say at all about this circumstance.
    7) The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?
    Answer: In the first stanza the poetess’ mother is shown as a twelve year
    old girl with a pretty and laughing face. There she went paddling with two
    girl cousins.  This phase is before the poetess birth.  The second phase
    describes the middle aged mother laughing at her own photograph. The
    third phase describes the agony of silence that the death of the mother
    has left in her life.

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