Unless, governor, inspector, visitor, this map becomes their window and these windows that shut upon their lives like catacombs, Break O break open till they break the town.” What is meant by this map? What are these Windows which the poet talks of? What has been referred to as ‘catacombs’?
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1. What is meant by this map?
The slums, visible from the classroom window, where the slum children live have been referred to as their map; the poet feels the world map pasted on the wall is useless to these children as their world is the slums.
2. What are these Windows which the poet talks of?
The windows of the elementary school classroom in a slum.
3. What has been referred to as ‘catacombs’?
The slums have been referred to as catacombs. The poet feels if the governor, inspector, and the visitor don't help the slum children more, they might die in the slums.
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