{"id":118450,"date":"2022-04-27T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=118450"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T07:55:10","slug":"chapter-1-a-photograph-questions-and-answers-ncert-solutions-for-class-11-english-hornbill-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/chapter-1-a-photograph-questions-and-answers-ncert-solutions-for-class-11-english-hornbill-poem","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1 – A Photograph Questions and Answers: NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English (Hornbill Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question 1.
\nWhat does the word \u2018cardboard\u2019 denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe word \u201ccardboard\u201d in the poem refers to the photograph. It is just a piece of paper a memory as the poet\u2019s mother is dead and gone. It signifies the transience of life and what remains is an insignificant piece of paper.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat has the camera captured?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe camera has captured the scene when the poet\u2019s mother and her two female cousins, Betty and Dolly, went paddling. They were holding the poet\u2019s mother\u2019s hands. The elder of the three was about twelve years. The three of them stood smiling as the wind tousled their hair.<\/h3>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe sea has not changed over the years. It remains the same through generations. On the contrary, life is transient. The mother has now been dead for years. Human life is transitory and this transience is contrasted with the permanence of nature.<\/h3>\n

Question 4.
\nThe poet\u2019s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe mother laughed at the fleeting moments that had long passed. She relived the memories when they were dressed as children and taken out. She laughed as she recalled the happy memories.<\/h3>\n

Question 5.
\nWhat is the meaning of the line \u201cBoth wry with the laboured ease of loss.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe poet\u2019s mother had been out on a beach holiday, years back and felt nostalgic about it, similar to what the poet felt when she relived the memories of her dead mother. The memories, in each case, were beautiful, but painful to recall as time slipped away, so easily.<\/h3>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat does \u201cthis circumstance\u201d refer to?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n\u201cThis circumstance\u201d is the death of the mother. This fact is as true and as real as the one that her mother had experienced, on the beach. Both the situations are now a memory of the past. The first is a memory of the mother\u2019s past and the second of the poet\u2019s past.<\/h3>\n

Question 7.
\nThe three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe first stanza is the poet\u2019s description of the photograph that had been captured from her mother\u2019s childhood. The second stanza deals with recollections. The mother\u2019s recollection of her childhood just as the poet recalls her mother who is now dead. The third stanza philosophises death and the transience of life.
\nA Photograph Extra Questions and Answers<\/h3>\n

Question 1.
\nWho have been captured by the camera on the cardboard photograph ?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe cardboard photograph shows three figures\u2014two cousins and the poet\u2019s mother.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.
\nWhere were the three photographed ? By whom ?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe photograph was taken when the three had gone with the poet\u2019s uncle to a beach. It was their sea holiday, and the camera was clicked by the uncle.<\/h3>\n

Question 3.
\nThe face of the poet\u2019s mother was sweet and glowing. Why ?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe mother looked sweet or charming for two reasons. She was young and still issueless.<\/h3>\n

Question 4.
\nWhat does the poet mean by \u2018terribly transient feet\u2019 ?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe human body is perishable and fast changing. The sea waves washed the feet of the three women which lost their smoothness and glow with the passage of time.<\/h3>\n

Question 5.
\nExplain : \u201cThe sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe mother was amused to see her photograph after a gap of thirty years. Her pleasure trip had become a thing of the past. For the poet, her laughter became history after her death.<\/h3>\n

Question 6.
\nIts silence silences. Elaborate.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe period of several years after mother\u2019s death proved so colourless and smooth that the poet bps nothing to say about it. The silence of time silenced the poet also.<\/h3>\n

Question 7.
\nSum up the main features of the poem \u2018A Photograph\u2019 in about 80 words.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nA Photograph speaks about the melancholy mood of the poet. A photograph of his late mother recreates the image of her mother from the past. It shows her mother when she was young, sweet and lively. Some two decades later the mother sees that photograph and laughs aloud. Time passed. In the third phase, the mother too is dead and gone. The poet is left with her memory which also is fading.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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