CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -A scholar and professor as well as a poet, John Berryman is best-known for The Dream Songs (1969), an intensely personal sequence of 385 poems which brought him the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ball Poem: CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Poem By John Berryman Summary & Notes.

Detailed explanation-3: -This poem is about losing something which we love and then learning to grow up. It is about a little boy, who in his young life, for the first time, is learning what it is like to experience grief after the loss of a much-beloved possession which is here his ball.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the “confessional” school of poetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -“The well” from THE FORBIDDEN DOOR: THE SELECTED POETRY OF LASSE SÖDERBERG by Lasse Söderberg. Published by Arrowsmith Press on October 13, 2022.