CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poet John Berryman “The Ball poem” describes the grief of a boy over the loss of his ball.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -According to the poet, the boy is learning about responsibility from the loss of the ball. By losing the ball, the boy has also lost all the childhood memories associated with that ball.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poet suggests that from the loss of the ball, the boy is learning how to stand up in a world of possessions where he will lose things, will buy some more to replace the ones lost, but would never be able to buy back the thing that he had lost. He is sensing his first responsibility as he has lost the ball.

Detailed explanation-5: -1 Answer. The Ball Poem is written in Blank Verse. A Blank Verse is poem without a proper rhyme scheme. The Ball Poem is written in a long single stanza having 25 lines.