Question

what did the poet want to express in poem 'maps'​

Answer 1

Answer:

So blot their maps with slums as big as doom’ means the slums all around the elementary school for the slum children are so much real and ever-nagging that they eclipse the world map, Shakespeare's portrait, and the scenery of Tyrol. The poet actually is appealing to people and Government authorities to do something more for the slum children than just opening a school with donations.