Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that fol

1.	Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:The cardboard shows me how it wasWhen 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.All three stood still to smile through their hairAt the uncle with the camera. A sweet face,My mother’s, that was before! was bom. ..And the sea, which appears to have changed less,Washed their terribly transient feet.Some twenty thrity years laterShe’d laugh at the snapshot. “See BettyAnd Dolly”, she’d say, “and, look how theyDressed us for the beach.” The sea holidayWas her past, mine is her laughter. Both wryWith the laboured ease of loss.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘The sea holiday …………………. ease of loss.3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) And she the big girl(ii) And the sea, which appears to have changed less(iii) terribly transient feet3. Change the following words into nouns:(i) easy(ii) laugh
Answer» 1. The speaker has a snapshot or cardboard or photo. It has her mother and two cousins of her mother. It was clicked when she was a teenager and went to a beach with her uncle or a holiday. All three were smiling through their hair. Some 20 or 30 years later the mother saw it again and laughed. The mother told her daughter about her cousins-Betty and Dolly. Then suddenly she died. The last laughter of the speaker’s mother had become her past. She had to bear this loss with difficulty. 2. The visit of the sea beach on a holiday was the part of the speaker’s mother and her mother’s laughter was the past of the speaker herself. They both had to bear the loss with difficulty. 3. (i) The speaker’s mother was the eldest of the three girls. (ii) Nature is everlasting. She never changes or dies. (iii) Human existence is bound to decay and perish. 4. (i) ease (ii) laughter.

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:The cardboard shows me how it wasWhen 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.All three stood still to smile through their hairAt the uncle with the camera. A sweet face,My mother’s, that was before! was bom. ..And the sea, which appears to have changed less,Washed their terribly transient feet.Some twenty thrity years laterShe’d laugh at the snapshot. “See BettyAnd Dolly”, she’d say, “and, look how theyDressed us for the beach.” The sea holidayWas her past, mine is her laughter. Both wryWith the laboured ease of loss.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘The sea holiday …………………. ease of loss.3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) And she the big girl(ii) And the sea, which appears to have changed less(iii) terribly transient feet3. Change the following words into nouns:(i) easy(ii) laugh

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1. The speaker has a snapshot or cardboard or photo. It has her mother and two cousins of her mother. It was clicked when she was a teenager and went to a beach with her uncle or a holiday. All three were smiling through their hair. Some 20 or 30 years later the mother saw it again and laughed. The mother told her daughter about her cousins-Betty and Dolly. Then suddenly she died. The last laughter of the speaker’s mother had become her past. She had to bear this loss with difficulty.

2. The visit of the sea beach on a holiday was the part of the speaker’s mother and her mother’s laughter was the past of the speaker herself. They both had to bear the loss with difficulty.

3. (i) The speaker’s mother was the eldest of the three girls.

(ii) Nature is everlasting. She never changes or dies.

(iii) Human existence is bound to decay and perish.

4. (i) ease

(ii) laughter.

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