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THE BALL POEM


 COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS

1.A popular quote states: Responsibility is self-taught. How does the Ball poem address this thought?

2.Recount your reaction to the loss of a favourite object as a very young child. Would you have behaved the same way now? Explain with reason.

3.What feelings do you think, might be experienced, at the loss of a mobile phone, for a youngster today? Explain how these would be different from those felt by the boy in the poem.

4.When we think of losses, we generally think of people or possessions. Time is considered a very precious commodity. Explain why time can probably be one of the things people bitterly regret losing/wasting.

5.Imagine you are the boy’s elder sibling. He tells you about the loss of the ball on reaching home. How would you assure him? You may begin your reply like this:

I don’t think you should take this to heart. You see…

6.The poem deals with a child understanding loss for the first time. Matches and championships too, deal with a different sense of loss. Explain how games and sports are a good way to train children to take losses in their stride

7. If the Buddha were to summarise the life lesson of “The Ball Poem’, what would that sermon be? Think and create this address for people of your age.

8. How does the Ball poem sermonize on the epistemology of loss?

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