Describe the life of the children of the Elementary School in a Tyrolese Slum Valley?

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What are the main ideas in this poem?

Poet Stephen Spender has presented a true picture of the life of the school children of the Tyrolese valley of slum in Austrian Alpine province. The children are in a very miserable condition due to their poverty and illiteracy. They are depressed. Their pale faces express the sadness and disease. They look lean, skinny and bony. They are like rootless weeds which can’t resist anything for their existence. Their scattered untidy hair cover their faces. They are physically very weak being undernourished.

They feel shy and have rat’s eyes. The boys and the girls cannot go to the outside world beyond their slum. Their classrooms are dark, dingy and unkempt. The school does not offer them sufficient facilities for their education, for their proper education. They lack confidence and eagerness.

The children have to stick to the classroom windows and the narrow streets of their world. For them there is no world beyond this. All the beautiful, shining and lovely things tempt them to steal. Their lives are pushed from bad to worse and from worse to the stage of endless darkness. The poet calls educated people to educate these children immediately and create a History. It will remove social injustice and class inequality.