CLASS 10
THE BALL POEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The fear that his father might scold him
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The fact that he cannot get the ball out of the drain
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The ultimate shaking grief
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The thought that his friends might laugh at him
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Detailed explanation-1: -(B) An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down. All his young days in to the harbour where His ball bent I would not intrude on him, A dime another ball, is worthless. Now He senses first responsibility In a words of possessions.
Detailed explanation-2: -An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy. As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down. All his young days into the harbour where. His ball went.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is sad because all the memories of the childhood days went down the harbour with the ball. Here the poet says that the boy is very sad as the ball which has now gone into the water reminds him of those sweet memories, of the times when he owned it. This loss is unbearable for him and he is grief stricken.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans: The poet says that the boy is learning to cope up with the loss of the ball. He is experiencing grief and learning to grow up in this world of possessions. He learns that there are so many things in life that are to be lost and cannot be brought back. It is useless to feel sorrow for it.
Detailed explanation-5: -As a mature, balanced grown-up, he might look back and think that his reaction of ‘ultimate shaking grief was: (1) disproportionate to the loss.