3. The maps were redrawn on the classroom wall a. Do we feel sad when we have to leave something behind?
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Answer:
Why does Stephen Spender say that the pictures and maps in the elementary school classroom are meaningless? (Delhi 2009)
Answer:
According to the poet the pictures and maps in the elementary school classroom are meaningless because the map does not include their world of narrow lanes. They live like rats in their cramped holes where fog and darkness dominate their lives.
Question 2.
How does the world depicted on the classroom walls differ from the world of the slum children? (All India 2009)
Answer:
The map of the world on the classroom walls is drawn in accordance with the will of the powerlords. This world is not even remotely related to the world of the dirty slums. The world depicted in the pictures that decorate the walls holds a stark contrast with the world of the underfed poverty stricken slum children who live in cramped dark holes. The pictures suggest beauty, well-being and prosperity. So there is no connection whatsoever between the map of the civilized world to that of the world of the children.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (All India 2010)
…….On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
Which two images are used to describe these slums?
What sort of life do these children lead?
Which figure of speech is used in the last line?
Answer:
1. The images used to describe these slums are: ‘slag heap’, ‘bottle bits on stones’ and ‘slums as big as doom’.
2. These children lead a life worse than death. The dirt and garbage of the slum is their world so their lives are pathetic, full of misery and poverty.
3. A simile has been used in the last line where slums are compared to a living hell.
Question 4.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (Comptt. Delhi 2010)
Open handed map
Awarding the world its world. And yet, for these
Children, these windows, not this map, their world,
Where all their future’s painted with a fog.
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.
What does the poet mean by ‘open-handed?
What can be seen through these windows?
How is the children’s world different from the one on the map?
Answer:
1. By the phrase ‘open-handed’ the poet implies to the map of the world that is drawn and reshaped at will by dictators like Hitler who want to gain supreme power over the world.
2. The bleak and uncertain future of the slum children can be seen through these windows.
Answer:
it tell us that the geography teacher was replaced by anew one