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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                      CLASS X ENGLISH
                                                 MINDMAP – THE BALL POEM



                              THE BALL POEM
                                            ABOUT THE POET







                                            THEME : INOCENCE
                                            OF CHILDHOOD &
                                            EXPERIENCE OF LOSS





                                            CENTRAL IDEA: This poem is about losing
                                            something which we love and then learning

                                            to grow up. It is about a little boy, who in his
                                            young life, for the first time, is learning what
                                            it is like to experience grief after the loss of a
                                            much-beloved possession which is here
                                            his ball




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                                                   INTERPRETATION &

                                               LITERARY DEVICES USED
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