Summary of "An Elementry School Classroom …

The poem begins with a description of the children sitting in a school classroom which is located in a slum. The poet has compared these childrens to rootless weeds as they are not given any importance by any member of the society. They are unwanted like rootless weeds or useless plants. Their faces are pale and untidy hair falls all over their faces. Then the poet describes a few children sitting in the classroom. There is a tall girl who sits with her head down due to poverty or some affliction. She seems to be in a depressed state. There is a boy who is very thin and has eyes which bulge out like that of a rat. There is one more boy who is unlucky as he had inherited a gnarled bone disease from his father. His physical growth is stunted and his lesson from his desk as he cant stand. Another boy is seated at the back of that dull and dim room,there is a sweet boy who is not paying any attention to the class. Ruther he is day-dreaming about the outside world where a squirrel is playing in the hollow of a free. It is in contrast to his own life. He also wants to go out and play like a squirrel but cannot do so.