Hello dear students,
Today we are going to start the poem 'An Elementary school classroom in a slum' by Stephen Spender. You can download the PDF copy of the lesson by clicking on following link
http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/lefl112.pdf
This poem is all about the pathetic classrooms of slum children of England. Read the introduction to the poet from the PDF copy.Here we go with the paraphrasing of the poem.
Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds
These slum children are very far and away from the gusty waves (waves of development). Their faces look as pale and discarded as rootless weeds. As a farmer throws weeds out of his field thinking that weeds are useless in the same way the society has ignored and discarded these slum children.
the hair torn around their pallor
These children have not combed their hair properly as they have not bathed for a long time. Their hair are torn around their forehead.
The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper seeming boy, with rat's eyes.
A tall girl also can be seen in the classroom. Her head is down because of a disease. Also we can see a boy in the classroom who is as thin as paper. His eyes look like of a rat's eyes. Rat's eyes are the symbol of hunger.
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