CLASS 10
FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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it is precious
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it is external
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it is internal
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it is useless
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Detailed explanation-1: -By the expression ‘money is external’ the poet signifies that money can never bring the luxurious in one’s life. However when it comes to what is lost, money cannot help as it cannot bring back our feelings and emotions towards the particular thing or person.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poet John Berryman by his ‘the Ball Poem’ tells us that we have to face many losses in our life. He says that “ money is external “ because money can only buy us all the luxuries and materialistic things in life. However, it cannot buy us emotions, feelings, attachments or any moral values.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poet says that money is something external and what he really wants the boy to understand is the meaning of loss. The boy is learning what it means to lose something.