Post on 05-Dec-2014
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The Cry of ChildrenPrepared by: Sony Padikal. E-mail - sonypadikal@yahoo.com
The Cry of Children – poem
Prepared by: Sony Padikal Email- sonypadikal @ yahoo.com
The Cry of Children.. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“For oh,” say the children,
“we are weary
And we cannot run or leap;
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If we cared for any meadows, It were merelyTo drop down in them and sleep..
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Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping,We fall upon our faces, trying to go..
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And underneath our heavy eyelids droopingThe reddest flower would look as pale as snow.
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..all day we drive the wheels Or iron in the factories Round and round…
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Dedicated to all those who lost their childhood
working in mines, factories, hotels, farming, fishing etc.,
and lost themselves in the world of cruelties……
Prepared by: Sony Padikal. E-mail - sonypadikal@yahoo.com
Prepared by: Sony Padikal. E-mail - sonypadikal@yahoo.com
Summary of the poem
The children who are working in the mines, factories etc., say that they are tired and they can’t run or jump like other children. Usually children play in the meadows, but for the working children meadow is the place to sleep. Their knees are painful and they fall when they are trying to go forward. Their eyes are drooping out of tiredness and even the red flowers they feel like snow. All throughout the day they drag their work burden which make them tired. They drag the coal through the dark underground or pull the coal and iron in the factories around the world. The tiresome works continues…
Prepared by: Sony Padikal. E-mail - sonypadikal@yahoo.com
Vocabulary
Weary = tired and lost all the strengthLeap = jumpMeadows = land that is covered with grassDrop down = to fall downMerely = onlyTremble = shakeSorely = painfulUnderneath = belowDrooping = hanging downwardPale = not brightDrag = pullRound and round = continuously