Sunday, April 26, 2020

#52 Class 12 An Elementary school classroom in a slum (25/04/2020)

Paraphrasing of the fourth stanza

Unless,governor, inspector, visitor,

This map becomes their window and these windows

That shut upon their lives like catacombs

Break O break open till they break the town


According to the poet, the condition of these children will not improve till the governor, inspector, Govt. officials and other visitors do not take proper and timely action. They have to take timely action lest their life is permanently limited to the windows of their classroom like catacombs. (इन सभी लोगों को समय रहते इन बच्चों के लिए कोई ठोस कदम उठाना पड़ेगा  कहीं ऐसा ना हो कि इनकी जिन्दगी catacombs यानी underground कब्रिस्तान की तरह इन खिडकियों तक ही सीमित होकर रह जाए). The poet makes a request to all the officials to break these windows (barriers) to help them to break these windows and  reach to the town in open air and sky.


And show the children to green fields, and make their world

Run azure on gold sands and let their tongues

Run naked into books the white and green leaves open

History theirs whose language is the sun.

The poet requests all the officers to help children run in the green fields and enjoy the nature. According to him, these children should be allowed to run on gold sands (on the sea coast) azure (under the open blue sky). They should be helped to read books and study. White and green leaves here are the symbols of different areas of knowledge,  green leaves are the symbol of science while white may be related to other subject. In last line the poet says that only those people find place in the history whose knowledge have power. Language is the symbol of knowledge while the sun is the symbol of power and energy.

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