An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum
On sour cream walls, donations.
Shakespeare’s heady
Cloudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities.
Belled’ flowery, Tyrolese valley.
Openhanded map
Awarding the world its world
shakespeare’s statue
the high rising done
coloured flowers
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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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