Solve this: 8. 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
(a) Name the poem and the poet.
(b) What future awaits these children ?
(c) Explain : 'slag heap'.
(d) Name the figure of speech used in the third line.
Dear Student,
(a) The above lines are from the poem "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" by Stephen Spender
(b) In the poem "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" by Stephen Spender, the poet feels that an uncertain, blurred and bleak future awaits these children.
(c) In the above line signifies the under nourished conditions which made the children so skinny that it appears as if they are wearing skin.
(d) The figure of speech that has been used in third line is a simile.
Regards
(a) The above lines are from the poem "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" by Stephen Spender
(b) In the poem "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" by Stephen Spender, the poet feels that an uncertain, blurred and bleak future awaits these children.
(c) In the above line signifies the under nourished conditions which made the children so skinny that it appears as if they are wearing skin.
(d) The figure of speech that has been used in third line is a simile.
Regards