"It was a torment to him to waste a day of his careful self-training, but he stayed
with her on that other beach, which now
seemed a place for small children, a place
where his mother might lie safe in the
sun." (lines 222-225)

What is the symbolic meaning?

umm duh they in differrnt places

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.