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                  A PHOTOGRAPH                                         -SHERLEY TOULSON       CENTRAL IDEA  Shirley Toulson 's poem" A  photograph" is a tribute to her mother . The poem describe three stages in the passage of time. In the first stage, the photograph shows the poet's mother is standing at the beach of enjoying her holiday with her to girl cousin. She was around 12 years old at that time. The second stage Take us 20or30 years later. The mother would laugh at the way she and her cousin were dressed up for the beach holiday. In the third stage of the poet remembers the dead mother with a heavy heart. The photograph revives a nostalgic feeling in the poet.          STANZA WISE EXPLANATION OF THE POEM  1."The cardboard shows me how it was    when the two girl ...

  CENTRAL IDEA The central Idea around which the entire poem revolve is that  love ,compassion, equality considerateness and sympathy alone can help mankind in establishing piece on the earth. Fire and ice are symbolically used. Fire symbolises Desire and it can bring an end to this world. Ice symbolises coldness hate and Indifference in human relationship and can be the cause of the the end of the the world. Too much Desire and too much coldness bring an end of the world. POETIC DEVICES USED  Symbolism  'Fire' is used as symbol of desire.                          'Ice' stands as indifference  Paradox.    ( It is a true statement which seems untrue).  It is in "But if it had to perish twice". It is in 'perish twice'. Alliteration  T he sound of /s/, w/and/f/in Imagery (Imagery is a figure of speech where a thing gives out another meaning than its literal meaning). -'Fire's and '...