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1. With  growing age, the poet’s mother has started losing all her vitality and radiance. The poet uses the simile of ‘late winter’s moon’ for her mother to indicate her approaching death. Winter is synonymous with lifelessness and dormancy. A winter’s moon is pale-white in colour bearing close resemblance with her mother who, having lost all her strength and beauty, looks ’wan’ and ‘pale’ to the poet. Her mother, too, is in the last phase of her life.

2. The poem 'An Elementary School in a Slum' talks about inequality and social injustice.The children born and raised in underprivileged classes are unhealthy and under nourished. The environment is gloomy and strangles their dreams. The theme has been presented by showing the dilapidated and dismal picture of a classroom in a slum.