Question

How does the poem, 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum', portray the children?

Please it's urgent.

Answer 1

It portrays the children as bounded.
They dont have freedom,they dont have access to the outer real world full of riches and wisdom.
Children are shown to have inherited disease from their parents.

Answer 2

Answer:

the childern in slum school classroom have pale depressed and dejected faces .their broken and untidy hair cover their faces .they are the rootless lot like the weeds. they are physically weak with small rat eyes that search foods . they are stunted boney and diseased