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An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum
The slum children are crushed under poverty. What types of dreams do they have?
The slum children lead a miserable life of poverty, undernourishment and filthy environment. Their world is shut from the education and the progress of the other world. Their bones are visible through their skins and the crampled holes are their only living places. Their future is foggy and uncertain but they have dreams of open seas, green fields, higher education and the other games as well.
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Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum? What does it look-like?
How does Stephen Spender depict the life of the children of ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
What is the unnoted boy doing at the back of the classroom?
How is the future of the children of an elementary school in a slum depicted by poet Stephen Spender?
Why does Stephen Spender call the slum children of Tyrol as unsung fighters? What is his appeal for them?
How does Spender interpret the poverty stricken yet onward struggling men in the poem : ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?’
How does Stephen Spender picturise the children in ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’?
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How is the utter poverty of children depicted?Explain “For these children these windows, not this world, are world”.
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The poet says, “and yet for these children, these windows, not this map, their world”. Which world do these children belong to? Which world is inaccessible to them?How does the world depicted on the classroom walls differ from the world of the slum children?
What is the impact of the world map, the dome and the Shakespeare’s bust have on the children of the slum?
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