her aunts

her daughters

her sisters

her cousins

Betty and Pretty

Dolly and Polly

Letty and Drolly

Betty and Dolly

She has gone to another city.

She has gone abroad.

She is dead.

She is in the hospital.

her mother's memory

her mother's laughter

her mother's photograph

her uncle's camera

for swimming

for paddling

for cycling

for surfing

bitter

innocent

sweet

angry

twenty or thirty years

four years

twelve years

fifty years

two

three

four

two

Betty

Dolly

Mother

Poetess

A Photograph by Shriley Toulson

A Photograph by shirley Toulson

The Photograph by shriley Toulson

Photograph by Shriley Toulson

Walking barefoot

Walking barefoot on sand

Playing in water

walking barefoot in water

simile

Alliteration

Transferred Epithet

both ii and iii

Mother to poetess

Poetess to mother

poetess to readers

none of them

allusion

oxymoron

hyperbole

personification

silence of past good memories caused void

silence caused by mother's death further caused void

both i and ii

none of them

the poet's sense of loss is too deep to express

their is no one the poet can share her grief with

the poet does not want to talk about her sense of loss

it is futile to discuss one's grief

during infancy

during middle age

during their pre teenage years

when they were old

Mother's childhood

Poetess adulthood

Poetess childhood

none of them