Page 2 - Assignment

d) Who can improve the condition of the slum children?

2. Short questions (Module 1)

a) Explain ‘far from gusty waves’.
b) How is the tall girl affected by her poverty?
c) What is the comparison drawn with rat’s eyes?
d) Who is the unlucky heir? Why is he referred to as unlucky?
e) W hat does ‘sour cream wall’ symbolize?
f) What is the comparison drawn with squirrel’s game?
g) What is ironical about the donations present in the classroom?
h) Explain “ his eyes live in a dream”
i) What does the child want to enjoy?
j) What are the donations on the wall?
k) What future do these children have in store for themselves?
l) What does lead sky symbolise?

2. Short questions (Module 2)

a) Why is Shakespeare wicked and map a bad example?
b) Where do their lives slyly turn?
c) What does slag heap refer to?
d) With what does the Poet want to blot the map?
e) Explain “shut upon their lives like catacombs”.
f) Whom does the poet appeal to and why?
g) What is the theme of the poem, “An Elementary…. a Slum”?

h) How does the map on the wall tempt the children?
i) Where does the poet see hope and relief?
j) What does the Poet mean by “let their tongue run necked into books”?
k) “History is theirs whose language is the sun”. Explain.