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What is the ambience of An Elementary School in a Slum?

What is the ambience of An Elementary School in a Slum?

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  1. Ambience means atmosphere. In the poem, the children are in pathetic condition. They have weak bodies, disorders, unhygienic conditions and absolutely no concept of education. The school wall is full of foul smell and pale colour.

    There are pictures of outside world (far away from slum) but the poet considers these pictures to be harmful for the students because they cannot afford them and use immoral ways to get them. This leads them to become thieves and robbers.

     

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