Question

The lives of these children ‘slyly turn’.......*

1.in the school

2.in their cramped holes

3.towards the windows

4.towards the sun

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Answer 1

the children lives slyly turn:answer:in the school

Answer 2

Answer:

The slum dwellers 'slyly turn' in their cramped holes from birth to death. (Option 2)

Explanation:

• This is an excerpt from the poem An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum by Stephen Spender.
• He portrays the image of despair and disease to throw light on the sufferings and miseries of slum children.
• According to the author, they are rootless weeds with their heads weighed down.
• The burden of poverty and disease tears their bodies but not their souls, as they still dream of a good, peaceful life.
• They dream with their eyes open about the vast seas, green fields, and the games of the squirrels in the tree room.
• He, therefore, powerfully reflects the theme of social injustice and class inequalities.
• He gives the picture of two different worlds where the rich survive happily and the poor are restricted to narrow lanes and cramped holes.
• Thus, in order to achieve progress in this situation, the gap between the haves and the have nots must be eliminated.
• It is possible only by breaking the barriers that constraints the children of slum in dark, narrow, cramped holes.