CLASS 10
THE BALL POEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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No
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Yes
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May be
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Maybe not
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: This line means that no one can buy something that is lost forever. No one can buy the boy that very ball which he has lost. Money is an external thing. It is a medium of possessing things.
Detailed explanation-2: -Money has its own limitations. Its nature is external. It cannot compensate for the losses that a person suffers emotionally or internally. No wealth can buy back the ball that has been lost forever.
Detailed explanation-3: -He does not offer him money to buy another ball because according to him, money or another ball is worthless. The boy was trying to understand his first responsibility as he had lost something, which could not be brought back.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.