Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow:
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1.'No use to say ſo there are other balls':
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went.'
a)Bring out the significance of the ball for the boy.
b)What is the impact of losing the ball on the boy?
c) Where is he staring now?
d)Where have ‘his young days' gone?
II. I would not intrude on him;
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions'
a)Who is l in these lines?
b)What is the cost of the ball?
c)What does the poet mean by 'a world of possessions'?
d) Give the adjective form of 'responsibility'.
III. He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
the epistemology of loss, how to stand up
knowing what every man must one day know
and most know many days, how to stand up.
a) explain the phrase 'his desperate eyes'
b) what does the poet mean by 'epistemology of loss'
c) what must a man know one day?
d) what lesson is the boy taught here?
THE BALL POEM
CLASS X
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Answers
Answer:
1.
a) The ball is very important for the boy because he not only lost the ball also he lost his gloden memories with that ball.Ao he considered the ball to be very important.
b) An ultimate grief struck him and he grew sad.
c) Staring down into the harbour where the ball went.
d) His young days i.e, his memories went down with the ball
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2.
a) I refers to the author who sees the boy losing his ball
b) The ball costs a dime - ten cents (US)
c) "The world of possessions” means the world where everything and every action is made to possess something, whether it is the possession of land, property, money, or any other thing.
d) responsibility - answerable / accountable
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3.
a) desperate - hopeless
his desperate eyes says that he is hopeless and deeply hurt due to the loss of his ball.
b) epistemology - knowledge
the word epistemology of loss by the author describes that the boy has to know that his ball was lost and the memories too.
c) A mam must know that even if he falls he should know the way to stand up again. He should be able to overcome the loss.
d) The boy was taught that one should be responsible and should take of his own things. If he is suffering from a loss he should know how to overcome it and to be brave.
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