Question

how does the poet describe the young boy​

Answer 1

Answer:

He describes the boy as a happy joyful person who got hit with miseries in his life. He was also a very diligent as well as smart,clever boy.

Answer 2

An Elementary School by Stephen Spender is about the plight of slum children is illustrated by vivid images and appropriate words to imagine a classroom in a slum. In this way he touches on the issues of social injustice and inequality in a subtle way

Explanation:

in this poem the narrator describes the young boy as " an unnoticed young boy lost in a world of dreams. He daydreams of a squirrel’s game and about the tree house, absents mentally from the classroom". This means

• The classrooms are equally dim and pathetic. There's a young and sweet boy who goes unnoticed at the back of the badly lit room, but his eyes "live in a dream." This sentence has different interpretations. Firstly, the boy may want to escape as he is bored and disturbed, or is challenged mentally and live in a world of fantasies far from the dark reality of his life.
• The ambition of the child is to play with squirrels in a hollow tree. The ' tree room ' stands for the small spaces that kids live in. In comparison, the squirrel in contrast, is free.