Two Photographs- Dannie Abse

Two Photographs is a poem in which Dannie Abse discusses his two grandmothers. He talks about their differences mainly, for example how one was "slim...vulnerable. Pretty" and the other "portly...formidable. Handsome".

 This parallel descriptions continue as Abse describes one Grandmother as "pious, passive, enjoyed small talk" and the other as "pacy, pushy, would never pray". However in the last stanza, Abse expresses how both of these women, so different and opposite, have met the same end, left as nothing but photographs. He writes how "Happening on them, my children's grandchildren will ask "Who?". 

I feel that the main aim of the poem is to show that these women, so different yet the same, both "uxoriously loved" are still merely mortals such as the rest of us, and in a morbid point of view, the impression of Dannie Abse's thoughts is that however loved you are in life death is inevitable.