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An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum
i) What does ‘slag heap’ refer to in these lines?
(ii) According to the poet, what do the children wear?
(iii) What is the other example that shows their poverty?
(iv) What is all time and space to these school children of the slum?
(v) What blot their maps?
(i) Here ‘slag heap’ refers to the waste material of Tyrol slum.
(ii) Beacuse of their miserable condition, these children are very weak, They remain naked. Through their skins their bones are visible.
(iii) Even their spectacle glass is broken into pieces, repaired and being used by the school children of the slum.
(iv) All their time and space is their cramped holes.
(v) This slum stains the map of the civilized world.
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What do you think is the colour of “sour cream?” Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?
The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare, ‘buildings with domes’, ‘world maps’ and ‘beautiful valleys’. How do these contrast with the world of these children?
What does the poet want for the children of the slums ? How can their lives be made to change?
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?
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