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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :“On their slag heap, these children Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones All of their time and space are foggy slum. So blot their maps with slums as big as doom”.(a) Which two images are used to describe these slums?(b) What sort of life do these children lead?(c) Which figure of speech is used in the last line ?(d) What blot ‘their’ maps?(e) Explain : from fog to endless night’. |
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Answer» (a) The images used to describe these slums are: 'slag heap', 'bottle bits on stones' and 'slums as big as doom'. (b) These children lead a life worse than death. The dirt and garbage of the slum is their world so their lives are pathetic, full of misery and poverty. (c) A simile has been used in the last line where slums are compared to a living hell.' (d) These living hells are the dirty slums. They are blots on the map of the civilised world. It is the world of the rich and great. (e) It means that the life of children is not only full of sadness but their future is gloom and confused. |
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