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A Photograph Summary Class 11 poem no-2 English (NCERT) Shirley Toulson -Deep-talks blog

A Photograph Summary

Class11 Poetry Section (NCERT)

Shirley Toulson

Hi, guys, I am approaching you after a long time, so I am quite nervous and excited. Today I am going to give you the summary of 'A Photograph' in simple and easy words. So, let's get started.


          Shirley Toulson's 'Photograph' beautifully describes three stages of time. The poet is looking at an old photograph. It shows his mother and her two cousins Betty and Dolly. The photograph shows that the poet's mother then was a girl of twelve. They were on a holiday trip to the beach. They posed for a photograph. Her uncle captured in his camera the sweet smile of the three cousins and the sea which washed their terribly transient feet.

        Years rolled by. Twenty or thirty years passed. The poet vividly remembers how his mother laughed looking at the old photograph. She pointed out to her cousins Betty and Dolly how they dressed for the occasion. But the sweet laughter of his mother has now become a thing of the past for the poet. The poet's mother and the poet both sensed a loss. The mother lost those happy moments of her childhood which she enjoyed to her heart's content at the beach. The poet's loss was his mother's sweet smile as she is dead now. The poet has nothing to say. His mother has silently resigned to her fate.
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