Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, and the map a bad example

With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal-

For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes

From fog to endless night? (Expected)

Questions:

(i) What two things are criticized in the opening line and how?

(ii) What are the things that tempt the slum children to steal them?

(iii) Why are the slum children tempted to steal the things?

(iv) Explain : ‘Fog to endless night.’

(i) Shakespeare is called wicked, and ‘the map’ is called a bad example as the slum children have no access to the educated world.

(ii) The wonderful things of the world like the sun, love and all the beautiful things tempt the slum children to steal them.

(iii) They want to steal the things because they do not possess them.

(iv) ‘Fog’ is the symbol of their ignorance which keeps them away from knowing good or bad. So they are pushed to darkness, like that of an endless night.