3. Now He senses first responsibility

In a world of possessions. People will take balls,

Balls will be lost always, little boy,

And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.

He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,

The epistemology of loss

A. What do ‘balls’ in the above lines refer to?

B. Who is ‘He’ and what is he learning?

C. Explain the following phrases:

i. senses first responsibility

ii. a world of possessions

iii. The epistemology of loss

A. "balls" refer to childhood innocence.

B. "He" is a little boy and is learning that losses are part of life.

C. i - means that the understanding that everyone has a responsibility to take care of what is important. ii- It means that every human being likes to have material things that bring him some kind of happiness. iii- It means the nature and the meaning of losing.

Explanation:

The above poem refers to how innocent and happy children and young people are, before they understand the meaning of possession and loss. The poet shows how young people need to deal with this and learn early on the value of things, the importance of them, the attachment we have to them, the responsibility for care and the inevitability of loss and all the feelings that accompany it.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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