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    The poem reflects on an old photograph of the poet's mother from her childhood. In the photo, the poet's mother stands at age 12 between her two younger cousins during a beach holiday. The poet notices her mother's sweet face and how her feet touching the sea seemed to depict the changes in her over the years while the sea remained the same. The memory of laughing with her mother over the photo and stories from the beach holiday were cherished, but both were now lost after the poet's mother had passed away 12 years prior, the same age as in the photograph.

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    The poem reflects on an old photograph of the poet's mother from her childhood. In the photo, the poet's mother stands at age 12 between her two younger cousins during a beach holiday. The poet notices her mother's sweet face and how her feet touching the sea seemed to depict the changes in her over the years while the sea remained the same. The memory of laughing with her mother over the photo and stories from the beach holiday were cherished, but both were now lost after the poet's mother had passed away 12 years prior, the same age as in the photograph.

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    A Photograph Summary

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    The poem reflects on an old photograph of the poet's mother from her childhood. In the photo, the poet's mother stands at age 12 between her two younger cousins during a beach holiday. The poet notices her mother's sweet face and how her feet touching the sea seemed to depict the changes in her over the years while the sea remained the same. The memory of laughing with her mother over the photo and stories from the beach holiday were cherished, but both were now lost after the poet's mother had passed away 12 years prior, the same age as in the photograph.

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    A Photograph

    Summary
    The poem is a tribute to the poet’s mother. She is looking at an old photograph of her mother which
    has a frame of cardboard. The picture has three girls in which the middle one is the oldest and
    tallest.
    It is her mother when she was twelve years old or so. Beside her, on both sides are her two cousins,
    Betty and Dolly, who are holding her hands and are younger than her. They went for paddling on a
    beach holiday. Her uncle took the photograph then. The poet could not help but notice her mother’s
    sweet face. The sea touched her terribly transient feet which depicted that she changed over the
    years and the sea remained the same.
    After twenty-thirty years, her mother would laugh at the photograph. She would make the poet look
    at the photograph and tell her how their parents would dress them up for the beach holiday. The
    beach holiday was her mother’s favourite past memories while her laugh was the poet’s favourite
    memory. Both of them lost something which they cherished a lot and yet cannot live that moment
    again.
    Those sweet moments were memories now.
    Now, the poet’s mother had been dead for the past twelve years, which is the same number as of
    her age when the photograph was taken back then. She cannot express the grief that she has from
    her mother’s absence.

    A Photograph Literary Devices


    Alliteration – repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words.
    The instances of alliteration in the poem are as follows-
    Stood still
    Through their
    My mother’s
    Terribly transient
    Silence silences

    Oxymoron – a term which contradicts itself


    Laboured ease

    Epithet – a phrase expressing a quality of a person or something


    Terribly transient

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