The Ball Poem

THE BALL POEM

SUMMARY The poem starts with the poet wondering about a boy who has lost his ball and what he will do next. The boy use...

1. Name the poet of the poem, “The Tale of Custard the Dragon”. Answer : Ogden Nash is the poet of the poem,“The...

1. Express your views on the title of the poem, "The Ball Poem’. Answer : When you see the title "The Ball Poem," y...

,2. What does the poet mean by “epistemology of loss”? OR How important is the learning to “epistemology of loss” for th...

3. What shows that the ball was valuable for the boy? Answer : It's clear that the ball meant a lot to the boy just...

4. Explain the line, “And no one buys a ball back. Money is external”. Answer : This line means that you can't rep...

,5. How can the boy stand up again? What every man must know one day? Answer : The boy needs to grasp the idea of...

6. What is the theme of the poem —’The Ball Poem’? Answer : Sometimes in life, we lose things we care about deeply....

7. Why does the poet say, “Balls will be lost always”? Answer : Hem balls represent the things we own. We cherish...

8. A ball is an easily available, inexpensive thing. Then, why is the boy so sad to lose it? Answer : Even though a...

9. Why is it important for everyone to experience loss to stand up after it? Answer : Losing things is a normal par...

10. What does ‘in the world of possessions’ means? Answer : "In the world of possessions" means a society where pe...

11. How did the poet witness the whole scene of the boy losing his ball? Answer : The poet noticed the boy enjoying...

12. Why did the poet not console the boy? Answer : The poet didn't try to comfort the boy for two reasons. First, t...

13. What is the boy's loss of his ball used as a metaphor for in 'The Ball Poem'? Support your answer with one point of...

14. What is the main idea of the poem? Answer : The main idea of the poem is about feeling sad when we lose somethi...

15. How did the boy react after his ball fell into the water of the harbor? Answer : The ball falling into the wate...

16. What is the general rule of this ‘world of possessions’? Why is money ‘external’? Answer : Getting and losing t...

17. Why does the poet say: ‘No use to say ‘O there are other balls’? Answer : Losing the ball might seem like a sma...

18. He Senes first responsibility in a world possessions. In the above lines from 'The Ball Poem', what does the poet me...

19. What is the message that John Berryman gives to the readers in ‘The Ball poem’? Answer : In "The Ball Poem," Joh...

20. Why doesn’t the poet want to intrude on ‘him’? What does he consider the safest course? Answer : The poet doesn...

21. Does the lost ball stand for the metaphor of the boy’s lost childhood? How? Answer : The boy lost his ball, an...

1. Should the boy be allowed to grieve for his ball? If his loss is irreparable or irretrievable then how should one han...

2. How did the boy really react to the loss of the ball or was he fearful of something or someone ……..? Can our attentio...

3. Elaborate the idea that one should learn to accept and let go and not stick to something that we can not have. Ans...

4. What is the epistemology of loss in this world of possessions? How has the child learned to stand up in life? Answ...

5. Why does the poet say, ‘I would not intrude on him?’ Why doesn’t he offer him money to buy another ball? Answer :...

6. Why is it important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it? OR There’s always loss and there’s al...

7. How is the lost ball, the metaphor of the lost childhood of the boy? Why doesn’t the poet want to ‘intrude on’ the bo...

Thinking about the Poem (Page 47) 1. Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he offer him mone...

2. “… staring down/All his young days into the harbor where/His ball went…” Do you think the boy has had the ball for a...

3. What does “in the world of possessions” mean? Answer : "In the world of possessions" refers to a world where peopl...

4. Do you think the boy has lost anything earlier? Pick out the words that suggest the answer. Answer : No, It seems...

5. What does the poet say the boy is learning from the loss of the ball? Try to explain this in your own words. Answe...

6. Have you ever lost something you liked very much? Write a paragraph describing how you felt then, and saying whether...