Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
... 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.
a. Name the poem and the poet.
b. Which image is used to describe the poverty of these children?
c. What sort of life do these children lead?
d. Identify and name the figure of speech used in line 3.

Answer 1

The extract is from the poem An elementary school classroom in a slum

a) The name of the poem is  An elementary school classroom in a slum and the author is Stephen Spender.

b. The image used to describe children is a slag heap and foggy, which implies choking with the garbage and full of smoke.

b) The children lead a miserable life far from the gusty waves and sand. They have no voice in the word. The garbage and slums is their world, hence their life is full of misery and poverty.

d) The figure of speech used is simile.