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    The document contains questions and answers about the poem "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman. It discusses how the boy has had the ball for a long time and it was linked to memories of playing with it. The loss of the ball represents the boy learning about responsibility and the real truths of life, such as how to accept loss and move on. The poet does not want to intrude or replace the ball, so the boy can learn this lesson about loss on his own.

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    The document contains questions and answers about the poem "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman. It discusses how the boy has had the ball for a long time and it was linked to memories of playing with it. The loss of the ball represents the boy learning about responsibility and the real truths of life, such as how to accept loss and move on. The poet does not want to intrude or replace the ball, so the boy can learn this lesson about loss on his own.

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    The document contains questions and answers about the poem "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman. It discusses how the boy has had the ball for a long time and it was linked to memories of playing with it. The loss of the ball represents the boy learning about responsibility and the real truths of life, such as how to accept loss and move on. The poet does not want to intrude or replace the ball, so the boy can learn this lesson about loss on his own.

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    The Ball Poem Q&a

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    The document contains questions and answers about the poem "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman. It discusses how the boy has had the ball for a long time and it was linked to memories of playing with it. The loss of the ball represents the boy learning about responsibility and the real truths of life, such as how to accept loss and move on. The poet does not want to intrude or replace the ball, so the boy can learn this lesson about loss on his own.

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    The Ball Poem by John Berryman

    Questions and Answers


    Q1-Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he
    offer him money to buy another ball?
    A1- The poet does not want to intrude so that the boy can get a chance to learn the
    real truth of life. He has to learn to accept the loss. The loss here means the most
    important thing or relationship.

    Q2- “… staring down/All his young days into the harbour where/His ball went
    …” Do you think the boy has had the ball for a long time? Is it linked to the
    memories of days when he played with it?
    A2- Yes we can say that the boy had the ball for a very long time. The line itself
    describes how the boy recalls those days when he used to play with the ball. The
    ball was surely linked to some sweet memories of his playing with the ball.
    Q3- What does “in the world of possessions” mean?
    A3-In the world of possessions means that the world is full of materialistic things.
    Materialistic things are those things which bring comfort and luxury in our life.
     Q4- Do you think the boy has lost anything earlier? Pick out the words that
    suggest the answer?
    A4- The line in the poem “now he senses his first responsibility’ helps us to know
    that the boy has not lost anything before.
     
    Q5- What does the poet say the boy is learning from the loss of the ball? Try
    to explain this in your own words?
    A5- The poet means that the boy will learn the real truth of life. He will learn how
    to move on in life despite of incurring heavy losses. Everyone experiences this in
    his/ her life when they lose either something or someone. This harsh reality that
    lost things never come back make people strong enough to live their life by
    accepting this truth of life.

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