English Confluence By CL Gautam

Poem-5       The Ball Poem by John Berryman      A Brief Paraphrase of the Poem  The poet wishes to convey that loss is a fact of life. The sooner man learns to tolerate it, the better it is. When we lose something for the first time, we feel very sad. But later we learn to live with our loss. In this poem the boy loses his ball. He is very sad. The poet can buy him another ball. But he does not want to do so. He wants that the boy must learn the bitter truth of life that everyone has to suffer the loss of something dear.          Annotations 1-Merrily- Happily 2-Shaking grief - great sadness 3-Rigid-stiff 4-Harbour- a place where ships load and unload 5-Intrude- enter without permission 6-Possession- something that is owned 7-External- superficial 8-Desperate- Hopeless 9- Epistemology of loss- understanding the nature of loss 10- Dime- ten cents Question/Answer   Question 1. Why doe...