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The Ball Poem Extract Based Questions for Class 10 First Flight

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow :

1. I would not intrude on him,

   A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now 

   He senses first responsibility 

   In a world of possessions.

Questions:

(a) Why is another ball worthless for the boy?

(b) How does the boy sense responsibility?

(c) What kind of a world it is?

Answers:

(a) Another ball is worthless for the boy because he had possessed the lost one. The new ball doesn't belong to him still.

(b) He senses responsibility when his possessed ball is lost.

(c) It is a world of materialism.

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow :

2. People will take

    Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy.       And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.

Questions:

(a) Why does the poet say 'balls will be lost always'?

(b) Why does the poet say that no one buys a ball back?

(c) Explain: 'Money is external"?

Answers:

(a) The poet says it rightly because balls are always lost in playing.

(b) The poet says so because no one can buy the ball back because it is lost. He means a sense of loss in the form of the loss of the ball.

(c) It means money can't establish the sense of belonging because it is always meant to be spent.

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow :

3. He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes, The epistemology of loss, how to stand up Knowing what every man must one day know And most know many days, how to stand up.

Questions:

(a) Why does the boy have his eyes 'desperate'?

(b)What is the boy learning?

(c) What is so universal about the loss that all must know?

Answers:

(a) The boy has his eyes 'desperate' because of the loss of his ball.

(b) The boy is learning the meaning or knowledge of loss.

(c) It is universal because almost all men lose something and they compromise with their loss. The boy is also learning it.

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow :

4. No use to say 'O there are other balls':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.

Questions:

(a) How does the boy react to the loss of his ball ?

(b) What does he stare at ? Why?

(c) What comes to his mind when he stares?

Answers:

(a) He trembles with utter grief.

(b) He stares at where his ball went. He is very much full of grief at this loss.

(c) All his young days come to his mind when he stares.

Read the following extract and answer the questions/ complete the sentences that follow :

5. What is the boy now, Who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street and then Merrily over there it is in the water!

Questions:

(a) Nam the poem .from where this extract has been taken.

(b) Who has written these lines?

(c) What has the boy lost?

(d) Where did the ball go ?

Answers:

(a) "The Ball Poem"

(b) Joan Berryman

(c) The boy has lost his ball.

(d) Bouncing down the street, the ball had fallen into the water,