REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT:


Q1:"and the sea, which appear to have change less, washed their terribly transient feet."

ans: the poet says that in the photograph the sea water washes the feet of the three girl. Over the year, the sea water has remained just the same but great changes have overcome the people whose feet were being touched by that water.

So, the sea water denotes its eternal nature of existence and the transitory being of man.

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