Post Test - A Photograph

1. What is the poem ‘A Photograph’ about?

• (a) About poet’s childhood memories

• (b) tribute to the poet’s mother

• (c) Poet’s photograph

• (d) Poet’s father

2. What does ‘Terribly Transient Feet’ mean in the poem?

• (a) her feet represent the mother, who changed with time while the sea remained the same

• (b) temporary situation

• (c) age is temporary

• (d) None of the above

3.What Oxymoron literary device was used in the poem?

• (a) Terribly transient

• (b) Through their

• (c) Both wry

• (d) Laboured ease

4. What would the mother show to her daughter while showing her the photograph?

• (a) how her parents dressed her for the beach

• (b) her cousins

• (c) her own childhood photograph

• (d) the background

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

……………………..A sweet face,

My mother’s, that was before I was born

And the sea, which appears to have changed less,

Washed their transient feet.

(a) Where was her mother?

(b) When did this incident take place?

(c) What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not?

6. What are the different poetic devices used in the poem? Explain them very briefly.

Write a critical appreciation of the poem A Photograph.

8. The three stanzas of the poem 'A Photograph' depict three different phases. What are they?

9. Happy moments are short-lived but provide a lifetime memory. They provide a cushion to bear the difficulties which the future has in store for you. Comment in the light of the poem ‘A Photograph’ by Shirley Toulson.

10. What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.”