Question

Q6.Read the following extract from the poem “An

Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” and answer the

questions that follow:


Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,


With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal-

For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes


From fog to endless night?

i) Why is Shakespeare wicked and map a bad

example?

ii) What tempts them?

iii) What does the poet say about their lives?

Answer 1

Answer:

english poet from sweden finno

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Shakespeare is wicked and the map is a bad example' for the children of the school in a slum because they can never reach that level of education to understand the works of Shakespeare. Their dirty, filthy slum has no place in the map of the beautiful world.

2.The ships and sun tempts them much

3. The poet says that there lives slyly turn into cramped holes and an endless night