Question

The poem an elememtary school classroom in a slum ends at a note of optimism

Answer 1

Yes, the poet ends the poem at a happy and hopeful note. For him, the hope of a life for the slum is some initiative by the governor, inspector of schools or a visitor. The poet hopes that slum children will have access to better education and a better way of life. He says that these children have to break out from their miserable hopeless life of the slum world so that they can wander freely in the green fields and golden sands (indicating the limitless world). These will become their teachers and the students will learn directly from the open pages ("leaves") of the nature and the world.

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