CLASS 10
THE BALL POEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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That we should be careful
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Gain & loss are two sides of the same coin
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Things once lost cannot be found
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Life is very long
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -objective. To make the students learn about the loss of something they love. To make them learn to develop the ability to understand the difficult situations in their life. To help them not to grieve but to experience new things over the loss of something.