Question

PLEASE DO HELP ME IN THIS QUESTION IT IS VERY URGENT Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (2marks) Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry With the laboured ease of loss. i) Which two time phases do these lines indicate? ii) Explain the meaning of the expression, ‘laboured ease of loss. THANKS FOR UR UDERSTANDING.........

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ii)laboured' conveys that both the poet and her mother were struggling, trying to cope with their loss. Yet, both realised that the loss was final and they had to accept it, therefore 'ease'. 'laboured ease of loss' is an oxymoron, a poetic device where two opposites are used together.

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