A Photograph Extracted Question Answer Class 11 | AHSEC | HS 1st Year English

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A Photograph Class 11 Extract Based Questions and Answers

A photograph extra question answer for class 11 or HS 1st year students NCERT & AHSEC board Assam

Extracted Question answers :

1. What does the poet see in the photograph ?

Ans : The poet sees the sweet face of her mother in the photograph. It was a sea-holiday when the photograph was taken. The poet's mother and her two girl cousins, Betty and Dolly. They all smiled at their uncle to have a photograph.


2. What does "transient feet" mean ?

Ans : The words "Transient feet" mean the temporarily existing feet of the poet's mother and two cousins girls. The sea water washed away their foot prints. It indicates the transitoriness of earthly things.


3. How does the poet react to her mother's death ?

Ans : The poet's mind was filled with the over grief at her mother's death. She became speechless. The memory of her mother's death made her silence deeper and deeper.


4. Why is the poem titled "A Photograph" ?

Ans : The poem is titled "A Photograph" because it is an old photograph of the poet's mother in her childhood.


5. Who had taken the photo and what did he capture ?

Or the question might look like this -

Who took the photograph of her mother with her cousin?

Ans : The photo was taken by their uncle with his camera on the beach. He captured the smiles of poet's mother and her two girl cousins with hair flying over their faces.


6. What is that silences the poet ?

Ans : The intensity of grief over her mother's death renders the poet speechless. The emptiness that she feels creates a pervading silence around her.


7. What does the cardboard show ?

Ans : The cardboard shows how it was when the poet's mother and two cousins went paddling.


8. How did the two girls go ?

Ans : The two girls went paddling.


9. What does the word 'cardboard' denote in the poem ? Why has this word been used ?

                                   OR

What is the implication of the word 'cardboard' in the poem 'A Photograph' ?

Ans : The word 'cardboard' denotes the damaged photograph of the poet's mother which was clicked when the poet's mother was only twelve years old. The word 'cardboard' has been used to denote that the photograph is now an old picture with the memory of the poet's dead mother.


10. What has the camera captured in the poem a photograph? (2012)

Ans : The camera has captured one of the happiest days of the poet's mother childhood days when she was only a girl of twelve years. That day the poet's mother and two cousin girls accompanied her to enjoy their holiday at the beach. They walked holding hands with poet's mother.


11. What has not changed over the years ? Does this suggest something to you ?

Ans : Time and tide waits for none. So the poet's mother and the two other girls, who hold their hands with the poet's mother on that day has changed. But the sea on which they enjoyed their holiday has not changed. This indicates that nature and it's objects remain unaffected but we the beings are not like that kind.


12. The poet's mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate ? (2014, 15, 17)

Ans : Two cousin girls who hold their hands, the poet's mother and their dress made them laugh. The laugh of the poet's mother indicates that her childhood days were so liberal and joyful.


13. What is the meaning of the line "Both wry with the laboured ease of loss" ? (2012)

Ans : The poet has lost her mother. She also lost her laugh of her childhood to death. The poet suffers the loss of her mother's face. So to forget the pain of her heart she doesn't want to say anything about her mother's picture.


14. What does "This circumstance" refer to ?

Ans : "This circumstance" refers to the demise of the poet's mother. Having seen the photograph of her mother who no longer survives; The poet's heart get overwhelmed with with nostalgic feelings and becomes speechless and there by prevails only silence.


15. The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they ? (2018)

Ans : The three different phases are as follows :

 a) The first stanza depicts the sweet, smiling free of the poet's mother with her two girl cousins. They went to enjoy their holiday at the sea beach.

 b) The second phase is about the middle age of the poet's mother.

 c) Thirdly the last stanza is about the death of her mother.


16. What emotions does the poet's mother have when she looks at the photograph ?

Ans : The poet's mother would feel nostalgic when she looks at the photograph. She'd say, '' See Betty and Dolly and look how they dressed us for the beach."


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