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What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?

The children in the slum were cheated with the thrilling sensations of happiness and joy. These children were trapped in a crashed dark hole with no hopes and passion struggling in a poverty and striving toward enrichment. To overcome this battle poet, want the children to be in a green ad fresh world with no injustice and healthy environment away from foggy slums. The poet wants an independent environment where these children must have a right to education and must have a freedom to choose every opportunity in their way.


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Tick the item which best answers the following.

His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means


The boy is


(i) full of hope in the future


(ii) mentally ill


(iii) distracted from the lesson

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Tick the item which best answers the following.

The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’


This means they


(i) are insecure


(ii) are ill-fed


(iii) are wasters

 2

What do you think is the color of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?

 3

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?