Chapter 2. A Photograph

NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English 

Hornbill 

A Photograph (Poem)

A. Infer the meanings of the following words from the context:

paddling,  transient

Now look up the dictionary to see if your inference is right.

Answer:

‘Paddling’ means ‘wading’ or ‘rowing’ a boat.

‘Transient’ means temporary.

Dictionary meanings:

‘Paddling’ means ‘walking or standing with barefeet in shallow water’.

‘Went paddling’ means ‘swam with short movements of hands or feet up and down’.

‘Transient’ means ‘staying in a place for only short time’.

Class 11 English Hornbill A Photograph Think It Out

Question 1:

What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?

Answer:

The word cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper. This word has been used to refer to a practice in the past when photographs were pasted on cardboard and framed with glass front to preserve them.

Question 2:

What has the camera captured?

Answer:

The camera has captured the three girls—the poet’s mother and her two cousins, Betty and Dolly, in their swimming dresses with the poet’s mother in the middle and the two cousins on either side holding her hands and walking v feet in sea

water.