Question

the poem ball is profoundly symbolic do u agree why or why not

Answer 1

Answer:

$According to the poet, it is useless to console the boy by saying that he can get another ball in place of the lost one. The boy had a long association with the ball. It was, thus, useless to give him such a suggestion because he wanted to get back the ball that he had lost.$

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Answer 2

Answer:

Yes the poem is symbolic

Explanation:

The Ball Poem is written by Berryman and the poem symbolises two important messages. One is related to time, it travels fast and we should not take this for granted.

Secondly every human can come around some loss, loss in the form of possession, relationship, time etc but he must have the ability to deal that loss with courage and eventually find a solution or way out