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Question - 1
It’s often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. You learn a lot from a loss. It really gets your attention and it really motivates. Describe.
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Loss is an essential and significant experience in one’s life. Explain.
Everyone experiences a loss at some point in one’s life. It might be the loss of a beloved, a parent, a close relative, or even a pet. Humans have a tendency of getting attached to things and the loss of things or people close to their hearts causes grievance. But one must not let that pull us down. Loss is an essential and significant experience in one’s life. And one must learn to deal with it and move on. If we keep thinking about it or grieve over that loss, we can never come out of it. It will only affect us psychologically and can have severe consequences. Brooding over a loss will never help in bringing things back to normal. Loss is inevitable sometimes. Once a loss occurs, one must grieve, but only for a short while. Thereafter one must get over it and move on in life.
Question - 2
Why is it important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it? Answer:
It is important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it in order to be strong and to get on with life. One needs to stay strong no matter how much it hurts inside. Staying strong is the only way to survive. Moreover, one must learn to accept and let go and not cling to something they can never have. One should understand that the past is gone, and it will never come back. Experiencing loss sometimes helps us to grow up and face hardships, like loss. This helps us in breaking all the boundaries of freedom.
Question - 3
Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he offer him money to buy another ball?
Answer:
The poet says, “I would not intrude on him” because he does not want to intervene in the natural process of learning. He wants the boy to learn the meaning of loss on his own. He also doesn’t offer him money to buy another ball because that would be worthless. He wants the boy to learn the lesson of responsibility.
Question - 4
“ …. staring down All his young days into the harbour where His ball went…. ” Do you think the boy has had the ball for a long time? Is it linked to the memories of days when he played with it?
Answer:
Yes, the boy has had the ball for a long time. When it bounced into the water, all his memories of the days of childhood flashed in front of him. This led to a realisation that those moments would not come back, just like the ball. He can buy new balls and similarly create new moments, but those gone would not return.
Question - 5
What does it mean money is external?
[CBSE 2018, March 8th]
Answer:
The phrase 'money is external' means that it cannot buy feelings and emotions. In this world of possessions, people are busy owning valuables. It can't help one learn the epistemology of loss.
Question - 6
Why did the poet not offer the boy money to buy another ball?
Answer:
The poet watched the boy who had plunged in grief at the loss of his ball. He did not offer the boy money to buy another ball. He felt that another ball could not console the boy. It seemed that the boy had the ball for a long time. The poet also wanted the boy to realise the epistemology of loss.
Question - 7
Write the sum and substance of the poem “The Ball Poem”.
[CBSE 2016]
Answer:
In “The Ball Poem”, Berryman tells us about how our childhood can quickly fly by, as quickly as a ball is lost and how we sometimes unsuspectingly must grow up and face hardships, like loss.
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