LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Shut the doors
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Blocked the passage
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Clocked the sunlight
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Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poet is talking about the open-handed map of the world that hangs in the classroom. 2. “These windows, their world” refer to the narrow and filthy streets of the slums to which the lives of the slum children is confined. .. These children lead a life of disease and despair within these narrow streets.
Detailed explanation-2: -However, the window is ‘shut’ because the children have been taught to believe that there is no future for them outside of their slum. The poem also refers to the slum as a ‘prison’. The prison metaphor in Stephen Spender’s poem refers to the fact that the children are cut off from society.
Detailed explanation-3: -(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.
Detailed explanation-4: -(b) “These windows” refers to the windows of the school classroom where the slum children are sitting. “Their world” refers to the world of the poverty-stricken slum dwellers. It has narrow lanes, small congested houses, foggy skies and dim classrooms.