A photograph

1.Now she’s been dead nearly as many years As that girl lived. And of this circumstance .There is nothing to say at all.

Its silence silences.

i. For how many years has ‘she’ been dead?

• a. ‘She’ has been dead for a number of years.

• b. ‘She’ has been dead for some twenty-thirty years.

• c.‘ She’ has been dead for twelve years.

• d. ‘She’ has been dead before the poet was born.

ii. What is the ‘circumstance’ being talked about in the given lines?

• The circumstance of the cousins who held her hand.

• b. The circumstance of the photograph being taken by the uncle.

• c. The circumstance of the cousins being funnily dressed by their parents.

• d. The circumstance of the death of the poet’s mother.

iii. What is the poetic device used in ‘silence silences’?

• a. alliteration.

• b. alliteration and oxymoron.

• c. alliteration and repetition

• d. rhyme and rhythm.

2.All three stood still to smile through their hair

At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face

My mother’s, that was before I was born

And the sea, which appears to have changed less

Washed their terribly transient feet.

i. Who took the photograph of her mother with her cousin?

• a. Her granduncle

• b. Her uncle

• c. Her mother’s friend

• d. Her grandmother

How old was grandmother when the photograph was clicked?

• The poet's age when the poem was written

• 12 years

• 20 years

• The poem doesn't mention

iii. What does ‘Terribly Transient Feet’ mean in the poem?

• a.. her feet represent the mother, who changed with time while the sea remained the same

• b. temporary situation

• c. age is temporary

• d. None of the above

Why do both wry?

• The poetess has lost mother's laughter .

  Her mother had lost her childhood days.

• The poetess has lost her childhood days

  Her mother had lost her laughter.

• Both were very sad to lose the childhood

• Both loved watching the photograph

Identify the oxymoron.

• terribly transient feet

• Its silence silences

• laboured ease of loss

• All three stood still to smile through their hair

Pick the theme of the poem.

• Happiness

• Loss of materials

• Loss and transience of human life

• Beauty of Nature

What is the tone of the poem?

• excitement

• jubilation

• perturbation

• nostalgia