An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum This poem by Stephen Spender gives a brief description of a school classroom in a slum and the children in the class. Poverty stricken people can't get education without fulfilling their basic needs . So we need to focus on their basic requirements before establishing elementary schools . The faces of the children are dull. Their appearance shows that they are unwanted. The children have gloomy faces. Their heads hanging low in sadness due to being poor. They have diseased bodies inherited from their parents and are victims of poverty. At the dim end of the room, sits one child who has bright eyes which seem to dream – of playing outside with squirrels. He is different from the others in the dim, darkroom. The walls of the classroom are dirty. People have donated different charts and images which have been put upon them. One of them is a picture Of the great playwright Shakespeare. His head is bald and resembles the risin...