... some company if their own age rather than a two year old. "In the hollows of the afternoons" This means that the mothers had some free time and that the afternoons are meaningless and empty. This sentence is a metaphor. In the second stanza there is more nostalgic than the other stanzas. The second stanza is telling us about the way the husband provides financial support. The women were the ones who did the chores at home, looked after the children and did the washing. It was the mans job to help the young mothers with money and with support of housing. " Behind them, at intervals, Stand husbands in skilled trades, An estateful of washing.." In the second part of the second stanza it says about how the wedding day of the mothers was the most important day in their lives in the fifties and sixties. They kept all of the photos as ...

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