Class 11 Photograph Question Answer Explanation with reference to the context

 Class 11 A Photograph Question And Answer Explanation with reference to the context

A Photograph - Up CBSE board Class 11 Chapter 1 A Photograph  Explanation of the lesson with summary and meaning of difficult words. In addition, the explanation is followed by a summary of the text. All questions and answers given in the lesson are covered

The name of the Lesson - A Photograph

Writer of this Chapter – Shirley Toulson

Born – 20 - May - 1924

Dead - 23- September- 2018

About the Poet

Shirley Toulson was a great poetess. Journalist. favourite  teacher and  editor. She was born on 20^th May. 1924 in England. Her first book was published in 1960. She would participate in social activities also Kathleen Shirley Tolson (née Dixon; 20 May 1924 – 23 September 2018) was an English author, poet, journalist and local politician.

Toulson attended Priors Field School and served with the Auxiliary Field Service during World War II. She married Army Lieutenant Norman Tolson in 1944: they divorced in 1951. He then studied English at Birkbeck, University of London and worked in Foyle's bookstore before becoming a journalist. In 1960 she married poet Alan Brownjohn; They got divorced in 1969.

As a poet she was a member of The Group, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Their work was included in the group's 1963 anthology A Group Anthology.

In 1962 she and her husband, Alan Brownjohn, were elected as Labor Counselors to Wandsworth London Borough Council.

His 1973 short story 'England's Playground', featured in the Welsh magazine Planet, satirized the objectification of Wales as a tourist destination by English second home owners.

Beginning with her book The Drover's Roads of Wales in 1977, Toulson authored several books on the subject of footpaths used by farmers carrying livestock from Wales to England. She contributed a profile of novelist Christine Brooke-Rose to the 1986 reference publication..

About the Poem

In this poem. The poetess .Has told us about human life. It is short lived. Childhood slips into youth. Youth slips into old age. Man becomes sad remembering the memories of the past now let us read about the poetess’

Stanza 1

 The cardboard show me how it was 

When the two girl cousins went paddling,

each one holding one of my mother's hand,

And she the big girl- so,  twelve years or so.

all three stood still to smile through their hair

At the uncle with the camera. A sweet face,

My mother's, that was before I was born.

Ans the sea, which appears to have changed less,

washed their terribly transient feet.

Stanza 2

 Some twenty thirty later

She'd laugh at the snapshot. She" Betty

And Dolly ", She'd say and look how they 

Dressed up for the beach. " The sea holiday

was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry

with the laboured seas of loss.

Stanza 3

Now She' been dead nearly as many years 

as that girl lived. and of this circumstance 

there is nothing to say at all.

Its silence silence. 

Explanation- I can know from the photo what it felt like when two cousin sisters were singing in the water holding my mother's arms one by one; And mother was that big girl and all three stood still, looking at uncle standing with camera, smiling through her hair, my mother's face was very sweet when I was not yet born and the world seems to have changed very little and Washing their feet overly short term.

After about twenty thirty years she laughs looking at the photo Look at the daughter Look at Dolly. Look how they were dressed for a beach holiday in those days. Holidays by the sea had become a thing of their past, but for me their laughter became a thing of the past and at this loss, we both barely tried to look normal. do

Now almost as many years have passed since this girl died as she was alive and I cannot say anything about this incident. its silence silences me

Explanations

1.Explain with reference to the context the following stanzas:

(a) The cardboard………………………Camera.

Reference-These lines have been taken from the poem ‘A Photograph’ written b ‘Shirley Toulson’.

 Context:    The lines tell about poetess’s mother and her cousins and their holiday celebration at sea beach.

Explanation:   In these lines, the poetess Shirley Toulson, looking at a cardboard, tells of her mother and her mother's two cousins. In the picture, both the cousins ​​were seen holding the hand of the poetess's mother. The eldest was the mother of the poetess who was about twelve years old. On the beach, they were paddling and then posed for a picture snapped by uncle with the camera. The three of them were smiling and trying to handle their hair, maybe the wind was blowing.

(b)   Some twenty……………………loss.

Reference These lines are the extract of the poem ‘A Photograph’ composed by ‘Shirley toulson.

 Context:  ’. The lines say about the mother’s statement after some years and their efforts to recover from the loss.

Explanation:   In these lines the poet is telling about the time after about twenty-thirty years after taking the picture. The poet's mother is commenting on that old picture and laughing at the old memory. Mom talking about her cousins ​​'Betty' and 'Dolly' who prepared themselves to be photographed and enjoying their holy day. The poet sadly says that his mother is no more. 'That picture points to a past sea vacation that was during her mother's time while her mother and daughter (the poetess) try to recover from their loss

(C) Now ……………silences.

Reference  -These lines are the extract of the poem ‘A Photograph’ composed by ‘Shirley Toulson’

Context:  The poet In these line tells about her mother‘s death and environment of silence.

Explanation-The poetess 'Shirley Toulson' tells of her mother as dead and that she died before the same number of years of her life. The poetess is very sad to lose her mother and in that situation there is no one to talk, and nothing to speak because there is silence everywhere and the poetess is also surrounded by silence.

                                               

  ·  Think it out

Q .1. What does the word ’cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?

Ans. In the poem. The word ‘cardboard’ denotes a framed picture in a hard paper sheet hung anywhere on the wall. This word is used to indicate the picture of the mother with her two cousins standing at sea beach.

Q.2.What has the camera captured?

Ans. The camera has  captured a picture of the mother with her two girl cousins. Actually. That picture was taken by mother’s uncle at the sea beach which  expresses their happiness  through their smiling cheering faces.

Q.3. what has not changed over the years?  Does this suggest something to you?

Ans.  The sea has not changed over the years. Actually.  The sea is a natural thing and unchangeable. As the  time passes. All the things other than nature. Change. All things arew affected by the time but the nature and its objects are longlasting and immortal.

Q.4. The poetess’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?

Ans. The poet's mother laughed at that snapshot as she was a young girl of twelve in those days and had two younger cousins. She had gone there to enjoy a sea holiday. after the time has elapsed. The mother laughed at that old picture remembering her past.

Q.5. What is the meanings of the line’’ both wry with the labored ease of loss.”?

Ans.  Line 'Both have worked hard with ease of loss. “That means they both – mother and daughter – were suffering. Although they were having difficulty taking their own separate loss, they were hardly trying to be comfortable. Both tried to recover in their own ways. tried

Q.6. What does” this circumstance “refer to ?

Ans. This circumstance refers to an environment of 'loneliness'. The poetess was traveling through nostalgia seeing an old picture of her mother and her mother is no more today. So that was the situation where the poet was surrounded by silence so she too was silent and did not want to speak anything.

Q.7.  The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?

Ans. The three stanzas depict three different phases:

(1) When poetess’s mother was a young girl

(2) When poetess’s was  a young girl

(3) When poetess’s mother was no more

Stanza for Comprehension

Short Answer Type Questions based on Poetry Extract

  Stanza-1 

 The cardboard show me how it was 

When the two girl cousins went paddling,

each one holding one of my mother's hand,

And she the big girl- so,  twelve years or so.

all three stood still to smile through their hair

At the uncle with the camera.

Q.1. Write the title of this poem from wich the above noted stanza has been taken? Who is the poet of this poem?

Ans. The title of the poem is ‘A Photograph’. Shiley Toulson is poet of this poem.

Q.2 What do you understand by ‘Cardboard’ in this poem?

Ans. The word Cardboard’s mean is a photoframe having the  photo  of the poet’s mother.

Q.3. What does the poet see in the photo?

Ans. The poet see her mother alongwith her two girl cousins.

Q.4. Who was twelve years old?

Ans. The poet’s mother was twelve years old.

Q.5. What does ‘all three’ use for?

Ans.  It is use ‘all three ‘ for the poet’s mother and her two girl cousins.

Stanza - 2

 A sweet face,

My mother's, that was before I was born.

Ans the sea, which appears to have changed less,

washed their terribly transient feet.

Q.1 Describe the philosophy of the sea as depicted in the poem.

Ans.  Almost no change in the sea over the years shows the stability of nature while man is mortal.

Q.2.  Who  washed the feet of the girls?

Ans.  The sea washed their feet.

Q.3.   How does the poet describe the mother’s face?

Ans.  She describe it as a sweet face.

Q.4.  When did the poet’s mother have a sweet face?

Ans.  She had  a sweet face before  the poet was born.

Q.5.  Point out the  rhyming words used in the given stanza?

Ans.    Rhyming words are -- Face, less.

Stanza -3

Some twenty thirty later

She'd laugh at the snapshot. She" Betty

And Dolly ", She'd say and look how they 

Dressed up for the beach. " The sea holiday

was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry

with the laboured seas of loss.

Q.1.   Write the title of the poem from which the above stanza has been taken.

Ans.   The title of the poem is ‘ A Photograph’.

Q.2. Where did the past for poet’s mother?

Ans.   She enjoyed her holiday on the sea beach.

Q.3. What was the past for poet’s mother?

Ans.   When the poets mother twelve years old girl, went to the beach to enjoy holiday. This is past for her

Q.4.  Why would the poet’s mother laugh?

Ans.  She would laugh to see her own photographs.

Q.5.   Who were Betty and Dolly?

Ans.  Betty and Dolly were cousins of the poet’s mother.

Stanza- 4

 Now She' been dead nearly as many years 

as that girl lived. and of this circumstance 

there is nothing to say at all.

Its silence silence. 

Q.1.  Writer the name of the poet who has composed the poem from which the above noted lines have been taken.

Ans.  Name of the poet is Shirley Toulson and poem ‘A Photograph’.

Q.2.  What circumstances is the talking about?

Ans.  This circumstances is of her mother’s death.

Q.3.  What do you understand by ‘silence’ here?

Ans.  Here mean of word silence is dead.

Q.4.  How much time has passed since she died?

Ans.  It has been twelve years since she died.

Q.5.  Whose death is the poet talking about.?

Ans.  She is talking about her mother’s death.

Q.6.  How many years ago had the poetess’s mother died?

Ans.   The poetess’s mother had died twelve years age.

                              Central idea

Central idea of the poem – A Photograph

The poem A Photograph by Shirley Toulson is a poem reminiscent of the poetess's past with her mother. Seeing a cardboard made with an old picture of the poetess's mother and her two cousins, the poetess travels back to past memories of old times. At the beach, they were all enjoying a sea vacation and snapped the picture from uncle's camera with folded hands. Mother was only twelve years old, laughing and smiling. Nothing changed with the ocean today Mother was overjoyed with her cousin Betty Dolly. For the poetess and the mother, it was a past event and after the great loss of defeat, both tried to overcome it at their level. The poetess is telling that her mother was living equal to the years of her life and now she is speechless. He has nothing to say. There the poetess is surrounded by silence and she or she is completely imprisoned in it.