Question

what is the tone of the poet in the first stanza of the poem an elementary school classroom in a slum?

Answer 1

The tone of the poem is a mix of hope (as in the last two lines of the first stanza where the boy at the back of the classroom dreams about a squirrel's game), anger, helplessness and despair (see the last line in the third stanza: "So blot their maps with slums as big as doom." Somehow, this line reminds me of a .