Question

why does the poet call money external ? 40to50 words

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet wants the boy to experience loss. Poet wanted him to learn that it is the part of life. That's why the poet doesn't want to interfere the boy and doesn't want to offer him money to buy another ball. Money is termed as external because it can only buy materials and objects but not memories and other things that one loses in life.

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Answer 2

In the poem, 'money is external' means that money can only buy all worldly or materialistic things. The poet wants to say that it cannot buy emotions, attachment, love, childhood etc. Once these things are lost, they are lost forever and they never come back.