What does the poet say about 'their' lives?

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According to the poet, these children spend their whole lives like rodents confined in 'their cramped holes'. The undernourished bodies of these children look almost like skeletons. Their steel-framed spectacles with repaired glasses made them look like the broken pieces of a bottle scattered on stones. Their future seems bleak.

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