Photos of a Salt Mine Poetry Explication The poem Photos of a Salt Mine by P.K. Page describes how people can imagine a series of photographs of a salt mine. It implies that some people view the images as light and innocent while other people may see it as dark. The beginning of the poem focuses on the purity and innocence of the mine. It portrays the miners as innocent. They describe the pictures as a cave with snow in it. The stanza main focal point was on what the mine looked like. They state it as a “great white bank/ wonderful underfoot the snow of salt/ as children do in snow”. The first two stanzas focuses on children's activities and what the photos look like. Giving the idea that it is from a child's perspective. The third