#47 Class 9 The Road not Taken (22/04/2020)

Paraphrasing of the third stanza

    And both that morning equally lay

  In leaves no step had trodden black.

Both the roads were looking appealing to him.He was attracted to the second road which was 

full of leaves. No one had trodden on the leaves which were lying on the roads.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

The poet decided to go for the second road. He kept the first road for another day.


Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

He knew very well that he did not know anything about that way. He had a doubt also in his mind whether he would come back or not.

#46 Class 12 An elementary school classroom in a slum (22/04/2020)

 Paraphrasing of second stanza


On sour cream walls, donations.

The colour of walls has faded because the walls have not been white-washed for a long time. There are some pictures hanging on the walls which have been donated. 

Shakespeare's head, 

cloudless at dawn,

civilised dome riding all cities.

Belled, flowery, Tyrolese valley


The first picture is of William Shakespeare. (William Shakespeare is a great dramatist and renowned name in the field of English.)

The second picture is the scene of dawn (early morning) which is cloudless.

The third picture is of a modern dome (गुम्बद) which rides all the cities.

The fourth picture is of beautiful Tyrolese valley which has many beautiful flowers.

Tyrol Valley is a high ice-free valley lying east of Mount Baldr in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. The valley was named by Austrian biologist Heinz Janetschek, a participant in the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) program in this area in 1961–62, after his native Tirol (Tyrol).

open-handed map 
Awarding the world its world.

We can see a map also hanging at the wall. The map is the symbol of the world. This map is called  open-handed because  it boundaries and shape can be decided by anyone whosoever is in power and have money.