An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum — Class 12 English PYQs

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
....... The stunted, unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father's gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel's game, in tree room, other than this.

Who is the unlucky heir?

What has he inherited?

Who is sitting at the back of the dim class?

How is he different from rest of the class?

On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.

Name the poem and the poet.

Explain: 'slag heap'.

What future awaits these children?

Name the figure of speech used in the third line.