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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Poem Chapter 10 Photograph
Photograph Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
C1. Answer the following questions in a word or two:
Question 1.
How many are there in the photograph?
Answer:
There are three people – the poet’s mother and her cousins Betty and Dolly in the photograph.
Question 2.
How is the poet related to the people in the photograph?
Answer:
One is the poet’s mother and the other two are his mother’s cousins.
Question 3.
Who was taking the snapshot?
Answer:
The poet’s mother’s uncle.
Question 4.
Is the mother described in the poem alive?
Answer:
No, she is dead.
Question 5.
Which aspect of the mother does the poet like very much?
Answer:
Her smile and laughter.
C2. Discuss and write the answer:
Question a.
Why does the writer say “And of this circumstance There is nothing to say at all Its silence silences”.
Answer:
The poet is depressed at the death of the mother and doesn’t have words to describe this feeling.
Question b.
Does the poet notice any change in the mother after the poet was born? What do you think could have made the change in the mother’s face, if any was there?
Answer:
The poet notices the change in the mother’s face after the poet’s birth. The change could have been because of aging, childbirth, maybe worry’ or ill health.
Question c.
Why are the feet described ‘transient feet’?
Answer:
The mother and cousins were standing at a beach and the waves came rolling to the shore, making them wobble, hence the term ‘transient feet’.
C3. Answer the following questions in your own:
Question a.
What is the mood of the poet?
Answer:
The mood of the poet is that of nostalgia and sadness. The poet fondly recollects the mother who is no more.
Question b.
Which line in the poem do you like the most? Why?
Answer:
The line which I liked the most was “She’d laugh at the snapshot”. I liked this line because we can understand that when the mother saw the photograph she forgot her troubles and became very happy.
Question c.
Is there any change in the life of the poet’s mother over the years? What kind of a person, you think, she was. Describe the mother in the poem in your own words.
Answer:
From the carefree time she had led in her childhood, his mother’s life is now fettered with responsibilities. She doesn’t have much time or reason to laugh frequently. Whenever she sees the photo, she forgets her worries aind laughs delightedly. After marriage and childbirth, her life is filled with responsibilities and duties. She no longer has time to go on a vacation and enjoy it.
Photograph Additional Questions and Answers
Question 1.
How old was the poet’s mother when the photo was taken?
Answer:
The poet’s mother was twelve years old.
Question 2.
Where and when was the photograph taken?
Answer:
The photograph was taken on a seaside when the poet’s mother had gone with her uncle and cousins on vacation.
Question 3.
How does the poet describe the mother’s face in the photograph?
Answer:
‘A sweet face’.
Annotation:
Question 1.
“She, the big girl – some twelve years or so.”
Answer:
This line is taken from the poem ‘photograph’ and the poet is anonymous. The poet describes the mother in the poem.
When the poet’s mother was twelve years or so, she had gone on a holiday with her uncle and her cousins to a sea-shore. Her uncle took a photograph of the three girls and the poet looks at that photograph and says the above line.
Question 2.
“The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter”.
Answer:
This line is taken from the poem ‘photograph’ and the poet is anonymous. The poet’s mother is described in this poem.
The poet has an old photograph of a mother who is smiling in a carefree manner during her vacation at the seaside. Twenty – thirty years later when she looked at the photograph she laughed thinking about the past vacation. The poet says that just as the vacation was passed, her laugher is also of the past because she is no more.
Figures of speech:
- Terribly transient – alliteration
- Its silence silences – pun
- labored ease – oxymoron
- paddling-moving like rowing
- transient – momentary, not lasting for long
- wry – distorted
Photograph Summary in English
The poet looks at an old photograph of his mother when she was twelve years old. One could see in the photo, the poet’s mother holding her two cousins on either hand and smiling at the camera. The photo was taken by her uncle at the seaside. The sea breeze had ruffled their hair and it had fallen on their face and one could see them smiling through the hair. The poet’s mother had a very sweet face when she was young. The waves beating against their feet made them look unstable.
Twenty, thirty years later when the poet’s mother saw the photograph, she laughed pointed at her cousins Betty and Dolly and recollected that they were all dressed for the beach and the sea holiday was her past experience just as the sound of the laughter is a past experience to the poet. The poet says that she has been dead for many years and all that remains is her silence in the photograph.