What is the boy's reaction to the loss of his ball? How does the narrator view this loss?
Answers
Answer:
What does John Berryman want to convey through this poem? [CBSE 2011]
Answer:
Poet, John Berryman wants to convey the importance of loss and responsibility in life. We all should learn our responsibility and how to cope up with the loss.
Question 2.
How does the boy feel at the loss of his ball?
Answer:
The boy is very much troubled at the loss of his ball. He experiences grief at the loss of his much loved possession. Like a statue, he keeps staring at the ball with his desperate eyes.
Question 3.
Write the sum and substance of the poem “The Ball Poem”. [CBSE 2016]
Answer:
In “The Ball Poem”, Berryman tells us about how our childhood can quickly fly by, as quickly as a ball is lost and how we sometimes unsuspectingly must grow up and face hardships, like loss.
Question 4.
“Money is external”. What does the poet mean by this expression? [CBSE 2014]
Answer:
The poet makes the boy understand about his responsibility as the loss is immaterial. Money is external as it cannot buy memories, nor can it replace the things that we love, the things that really matter.
Question 5.
Why does the poet think that it is useless to give the following suggestion to the boy?
‘No use to say- ‘O there are other balls’:
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.
Question 6.
Why did the poet not offer the boy money to buy another ball? [CBSE 2015]
Answer:
The poet watched the boy who had plunged in grief at the loss of his ball. He did not offer the boy money • to buy another ball. He felt that another ball could not console the boy. It seemed that the boy had the ball for a long time. The poet also wanted the boy to realise the epistemology of loss.
Question 7.
Why did the boy feel so sad at the loss of his ball?
Answer:
When the boy lost the ball, he plunged in grief. He stood staring down the harbour where his ball was lost. The boy was affected profoundly by the loss of his ball because it had been with him for a long time. It was linked to the memories of the days when he played with it.
Long Answer (Value Based) Type Question [8 Marks each]
Question 1.
Why is it important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it? [CBSE2014]
Answer:
It is important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it in order to be strong and to get on with life. One
needs to stay strong no matter how much it hurts inside. Staying strong is the only way to survive. Moreover, one needs to learn to accept and let go and not cling to something that they can never have. One should understand that the past is gone and it will never come back. Experiencing loss sometimes helps us to grow up and face hardships, like loss. This helps us in breaking all the boundaries into freedom
Explanation:
Explanation:
mark me as brainlist plz
