CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Why are the boy’s eyes desperate? (a) Because he has lost his ball. (b) Because he has lost his money. Answer: (a) Because he has lost his ball.

Detailed explanation-3: -The boy’s eyes are ‘desperate’ because he has lost his ball. c. The boy is learning the meaning of loss.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Boy’s eyes were desperate because he had lost his ball. The poet also did not told the boy that he will buy him another ball because whatever the boy had lost is lost and if the poet bought him another ball it will not bring back the old memories of that lost ball.