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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.Break O break open till they break the town And show the children to green fields, and make their world Run azure on gold sands and let their tongues Run naked into books the white and green leaves open History theirs whose language is the sun.(a) To whom does ‘they’ refer? (b) What would they break? (c) What does the poet want for them? (d) What other freedom should they enjoy? |
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Answer» (a) The word ‘they’ refers to inspectors, visitors, governors and those who are in authority. (b) They would break the grim walls of the slum children’s world which shut the children off from our world. (c) The poet wants that these children should be properly educated, so that they get the energy and warmth of the sun which is symbolic of light and knowledge. (d) The slum children should get adequate opportunity to know the world and find their place under the sun. |
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