18 MAY XI ENG A PHOTOGRAPH.pptx

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1. CLASS XI ENGLISH CORE LITERATURE A PHOTOGRAPH Presentation by SP Singh

2. ABOUT THE POET Shirley Toulson has been writing books on the social history of the countryside since 1974. She is a leading authority on ancient tracks and drove roads and is the author of 'The Drovers' Roads of Wales' and 'The Drovers Roads of South Wales'. Born : 20 May 1924, Thames, United Kingdom

3. A PHOTOGRAPH

4. A PHOTOGRAPH The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling Each one holding one of my mother’s hands , And she the big girl - some 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 And the sea, which appears to have changed less Washed their terribly transient feet.

5. CONTD... Some twenty- thirty- years later She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty And Dolly," she’d say, “and look how they Dressed us for the beach." The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry With the laboured ease of loss Now she’s has been dead nearly as many years As that girl lived . And of this circumstance There is nothing to say at all, Its silence silences.

6. “ An Embodiment of Time and Timelessness ” Shirley Toulson’s ‘A Photograph` unfolds the very tenet(a belief) of “Time – and Timelessness”. The poem strongly hints at the eternal state of the natural being and ephemeral(lasting for a short time) state of the humans. Here we are acquainted with a picture of sea beach and three girls including the poet’s mother. Sea rarely changed but the mother of the poet met the horns of death. *(EMBODIMENT- a tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.)

7. SUMMARY In the poem, poetess describes a photograph of her mothers’ childhood. In the photograph of time when she went for a sea holiday with her two girl cousins. Also, poetess contrasts between nature, altering at the pace of a snail and the fast-changing human life. Poetess remembers how her mother laughs at the photograph and feel disappointed at the loss of her childhood joys. However, then, the sea holiday was her mother’s past and now her mother’s laugh is the poetess’s past. At different periods of time and with great difficulty, both resolve with their respective losses and the pain that involves in remembering past . Besides, for the poetess, his mother’s death of her mother brings great sadness and a dire sense of loss. Moreover, the painful ‘silence’ of the situation leaves her without words.

8. Poetic Devices Alliteration in " s tood s till to s mile", " t erribly t ransient" and " s ilence s ilences". Transferred Epithet in "Washed their terribly transient feet". Oxymoron in " laboured ease". Personification in "Its silence silences.“

9. POETIC DEVICES Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Transferred epithet is a little known—but often used—figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. In other words, the modifier or epithet is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence. Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Personification is a figure intended to represent an abstract quality.

10. A PHOTOGRAPH - A Melancholic, A Nostalgic poem    A photograph is melancholic to the utmost. We are acquainted here about loss, pain and separation. The smiling photograph creates a pang in the heart of the poet as she remembers and misses her mother with a doleful heart. The absence of her mother in her life has made her life a gloomy one.    If nostalgia describes sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations, then ‘A photograph` is a nostalgic poem. We find the poet to acquaint us with past happy moments related to her mother’s childhood and happy days.

11. THEME The theme of the poem Photograph is loss, memory and the transience of life. It explores how people may die but in a strange way they continue to live on in the form of memories. These memories are not just restricted to one's head but can also attain a tangible form such as photographs .

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