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An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum

Question
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What specific message does ‘Stephen Spender’ want to convey through this poem?

Solution

In this poem Stephen Spender describes the theme of social injustice and class inequalities of civilized and poor slum people. The civilized world is educated, progressive and developed. The other world belongs to the slum children of Tyrol valley who need education and they live in cramped holes. He wants then to fulfil this gap and requests the civilized people to educate and raise them.