1. What did the mother look like? What made the poet feel so? 2. What did she realize with pain? 3. How did she take her mind off the thought? 4. What does of and of refer ‘sprinting trees’ ‘spilling children’ to’? 5. Bring out the contrast portrayed by the scene outside with the state of the mother. poet’s 6. Why is the mother compared to late ‘a winter’s moon’? 7. What is the childhood fear of the poet 8. Though filled with negative thoughts in her mind, outwardly what did the poet reflect? Substantiate your point from the words/pharses from the poem. 2. An Elementary School Classroom in A Slum. 1. The poem begins on a very potent simile about the faces. Explain. children’s 2. Bring out the powerful imagery presented in the first stanza depicting despair and disease. 3. Why does the poet use for the ‘rat’s eye’ ‘paper seeming boy’? 4. Describe the powerfully telescopic image drawn by the picturisation of a sick boy. 5. Why is the class described referred to as ‘dim’? 6. Do you agree that the poet has dealt with a universal theme? How far has he succeeded in depicting the role of every individual towards development of the underprivileged? 7. Where does the sweet and young mind wander? What does it show? boys’ 8. What are the things that adorn the walls of the classroom? Why does it have no significance to the children? 9. Why is the as the world of the children? ‘window’ depicted 10. Why is their world far from river capes and star of words? 11. Why is Shakespeare wicked and maps a bad example?
1. What did the mother look like? What made the poet feel so? 2. What did she realize with pain? 3. How did she take her mind off the thought? 4. What does ‘sprinting of trees’ and ‘spilling of children’ refer to’? 5. Bring out the contrast portrayed by the scene outside with the state of the poet’s mother. 6. Why is the mother compared to ‘a late winter’s moon’? 7. What is the childhood fear of the poet 8. Though filled with negative thoughts in her mind, outwardly what did the poet reflect? Substantiate your point from the words/pharses from the poem. 2. An Elementary School Classroom in A Slum. 1. The poem begins on a very potent simile about the children’s faces. Explain. 2. Bring out the powerful imagery presented in the first stanza depicting despair and disease. 3. Why does the poet use ‘rat’s eye’ for the ‘paper seeming boy’? 4. Describe the powerfully telescopic image drawn by the picturisation of a sick boy. 5. Why is the class described referred to as ‘dim’? 6. Do you agree that the poet has dealt with a universal theme? How far has he succeeded in depicting the role of every individual towards development of the underprivileged? 7. Where does the sweet and young boys’ mind wander? What does it show? 8. What are the things that adorn the walls of the classroom? Why does it have no significance to the children? 9. Why is the ‘window’ depicted as the world of the children? 10. Why is their world far from river capes and star of words? 11. Why is Shakespeare wicked and maps a bad example?
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