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Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:And yet, for these Children, these windows, not this world, are world, Where all their future’s painted with a fog, A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky, Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words (a) Who are the children referred to? (b) What does the writer mean by ‘these windows’? (c) Explain ‘future’s’ painted with fog. (d) Why does the poet mention rivers and capes? |
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Answer» (a) The children referred to are the children of the slums. (b) ‘these windows’ refers to the windows of the slum classroom through which only the slums are visible. (c) Fog is a symbol of uncertain future. The poet means that the slum children have a dark and uncertain future. (d) The lives of the children are far from the rivers and capes which represent liberating, open outdoors of which the children are deprived . |
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