A Photograph class 11 extra questions | A Photograph extract based questions Hornbill | CBSE / NCERT | solved Question and answer based on examination
Extract 1
The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother's hands,
And she the big girl - some twelve years or so .
Questions
1. Name the poem and the poet.2. What does the word 'cardboard' denote ?
3. Who were the two girls ?
4. What were the two girls doing ?
5. What did the cardboard show ?
6. What was the age of the big girl ?
Answers
1. The name of the poem 'A Photograph'. The name of the poet is Shirley Toulson.
2 The photograph pasted on a cardboard . This photo is just like a card for poet because mother is already dead.
3. They were the cousins of the poet's mother.
4. Each one of them was holding one hand of the poet's mother.
5. It showed a photograph with three girls walking with bare feet in the shallow beach.
6. The big girl was about twelve years old.
Extract 2
All three stood still to smile through their flying hairAt 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.
Questions
Q.1 Name the poet and the poet.
Q. 2. Who do the words "All three refer to ?
Q. 3. Why do you think they stood still ?
Q . 4. What was the uncle doing?
Answers
1. The name of the poem 'A Photograph'. The name of the poet is 'Shirley Toulson'.
2. These words refer to the poet's mother and the two girl cousins of the mother.
3. They stood still because their uncle was capturing a photograph.
4. Uncle was taking a photograph of the three girls.
Extract 3
Some twenty-thirty- years later
She'd laugh at the snapshot. "See Betty
And Dolly," she'd say, "and look how they
Dressed us for the beach." The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
Questions
Q : Name the poet and the poem .
Q . How old was 'she' some thirty years ago ?
Q. Whom did she show the photograph ?
Q .What does the line 'Both wry with the laboured ease of loss' mean?
Answers:
1. Name of the poet is 'Shirley Toulson' and the poem is 'A Photograph.'
2. She Was about twelve years old at that time.
3. Mother showed the photograph to her daughter , the poet.
4. Mother's face was wry over the loss of her childhood joys. The poet's face Was wry over the loss of her mother. Both of them had lost their the joys and happiness.
Extract 4
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.
Questions:
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. Who has been dead and how long?
3 What does the poet remember of 'that girl'?
4. How does the poet feel about 'this circumstance' ?
5. 'As many years as that girl lived." Explain.
6. Why is there nothing to say at all?
Answers
1. The name of the poem is A Photograph. The name of the poet is Shirley Toulson.
2. The poet's mother has been dead for about twelve years.
3. She remembers the lovely face and the changed face of her mother altogether. She also remembers the laughter of her mother.
4. She feels very sad and lonely without her mother. Her mother has already died long ago.
5. The post tries to say that her mother has died about twelve years ago. This was the age of her mother when this taken.
6. The death of poet's mother is a big blow to her. She is too shocked to say anything. She cannot express her grief in words.
SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS
Q. 1 Whose photograph is mentioned in this poem ?
Ans. The photograph of the poet's mother is mentioned in the poet. It was taken when the poet's mother was about twelve years old.
Q 2 . How can you say that the photograph was taken on a windy day?
Ans. : In the photograph, the girls are seen smiling through their hair. Their hair are scattered over their faces. This shows that the photograph was taken on a windy day.
Q. :What is the meaning of the line, 'Washed their terrible transient feet' ?
Ans : The sea seems changed less over the years. The sea beach and the sun has almost the same look as it was years back . Although, a great change has seen to those who once paddled the beach . The mother has already dead and the poet is all alone now.
Q : How does the pet feel the loss of her mother ?
Ans. Poet feels very sad for her dead mother. She remembers her laughter on seeing the photograph. She feels a void at the loss of her mother.
Q. Explain : 'Its silence silences."
Ans : After the death of her mother, poet feels very sad sad and lonely. She has no happiness or charm left in her life. There is no one with whom she can share her feelings. She remains silent now. That is why silence surrounds her without her mother.
Q. The three stanzas depict three different phases. Name them.
Ans. The first phase refers to the time when the poet's mother was just twelve. She used to go to sea beach with her uncle and her cousins. They paddled the sea beach and enjoy their holidays. The second phase refers to the time when the poet lives with her mother. The mother was then in her thirties or forties. She remembers her childhood and get amused . She completely loses in her childhood memories and happily tells her daughter ( poet) about vacation and stories related to it . The third phase refers to the time when poet is lonely and sad. The mother is already dead. She is now all alone. She has no one to talk to . The poet cannot even express her grief to anyone. She has suffered a great loss. She remains silent now .
Q. . What does the word 'cardboard' denote in the poem ? Why has this word been used ?
Ans. The word 'cardboard' has been used for the mother's photograph . Perhaps it is pasted on a cardboard . It is just like a cardboard now because the mother is already dead.
Q . What has the camera captured?
Ans : The camera has captured three little girls. One of them is the poet's mother. Other two are the mother's girl cousins. Each of them is holding one hand
of the mother. The mother was then just a girl of twelve. . They are standing in shallow water. They are smiling through their flying hair.
Q . What has not changed over the years ? Does this suggest something to you?
Ans. : The sea has not changed over the years. The girls have changed completely who once paddled on its beach. It suggests that while human life is transient, but the nature always remained the same.
Q . : The poet's mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh
Indicates?
Ans : Mother's laughter shows that the mother had a happy childhood. She feels happy remembering her childhood and beach holiday.
Q. What is the meaning of the line : 'Both wry with the laboured ease of loss' ?
Ans. : The poet here brings out a similarity between the face of her mother and own face. Both the faces had turned wry due to the intense feeling of great loss The mother had lost the joys of her childhood. The poet had lost the
laughter of her mother who was now dead. So faces have lost their charm due to loss. There was despair which prevailed on the faces.
Q. What does 'this circumstances' refer to ?
Ans. : Poet has lost her mother . She is very sad and lonely. She misses her mother so much. She remembers her mother's laughter. All this shows present mental state of her. This is circumstances is referred to here in these lines.
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