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The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of 'Shakespeare', 'buildings with domes', 'world maps', and 'beautiful valleys'. How do these contrast with the world of these children?  

Answer:

The poet sees the lives of slum children as far removed from that represented in schoolbooks, maps, photographs of alpine valleys, and pictures of buildings with domes and bust of Shakespeare.,; If education is supposed to open 'doors' or 'windows' to other worlds, surely it has Jailed in this instance to liberate these children from their physically and intellectually cramped, impovenshed existence in the catacombs of modern industrial towns. In contrast to alluring decorations on the walls, these are useless and unwanted 'rubbish