Comprehension

1b00Could you dear teachers do me a favor? I am putting a poem and some questions regarding it down here. Could you please take some time out answering the questions followed by? I will be very much thankful to you for your help. 02b02br
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01b00Children 01i00Henry 00 Longfellow02i02b02br
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00Come to me, O ye children!02br
00For I hear you at your play,02br
00And the questions that perplexed me02br
00Have vanished quite away.02br
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00Ye open the eastern windows,02br
00That look towards the sun,02br
00Where thoughts are singing swallows02br
00And the brooks of morning run.02br
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00In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,02br
00In your thoughts the brooklet's flow,02br
00But in mine is the wind of Autumn02br
00And the first fall of the snow.02br
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00Ah! what would the world be to us02br
00If the children were no more?02br
00We should dread the desert behind us02br
00Worse than the dark before.02br
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00What the leaves are to the forest,02br
00With light and air for food,02br
00Ere their sweet and tender juices02br
00Have been hardened into wood, --02br
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00That to the world are children;02br
00Through them it feels the glow02br
00Of a brighter and sunnier climate02br
00Than reaches the trunks below.02br
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00Come to me, O ye children!02br
00And whisper in my ear02br
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00What the birds and the winds are singing02br
00In your sunny atmosphere.02br
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00For what are all our contrivings,02br
00And the wisdom of our books,02br
00When compared with your caresses,02br
00And the gladness of your looks?02br
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00Ye are better than all the ballads02br
00That ever were sung or said;02br
00For ye are living poems,02br
00And all the rest are dead.02br
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001.00 00What are the children doing?02br
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002.00 00What is the question that is disturbing the poet?02br
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003.00 00How has the question been answered?02br
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004.00 00What does the poet mean by saying that the children open the windows that look to the east?02br
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005.00 00With what does the poet compare thoughts?02br
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006.00 00Why does he compare them so?02br
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007.00 00How can the birds and the sunshine be in the hearts of the children? What does the poet mean?02br
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008.00 00The poet says that the children are thinking of the brooks while he is thinking of autumn. What does this mean?02br
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009.00 00Is the poet using the word autumn for old age?02br
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0010.00 00What other words does the poet use to show the coming of old age upon him?02br
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0011.00 00How are the children different from the poet?02br
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0012.00 00What question does the poet ask?02br
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0013.00 00In the third and fourth lines of this stanza, the poet says if there were no children, we would fear the desert behind us, and more than that we would fear the dark in front of us. What do the desert and the dark mean? 02br
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0014.00 00What would happen to the trees if there were no leaves?02br
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0015.00 00What would happen to us, if there were no children?02br
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0016.00 00Why does the poet ask the children to come to him?02br
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0017.00 00What songs does the poet wish to be whispered in the ear?02br
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0018.00 00With what does the poet compare children?02br
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0019.00 00How can the children be like the ballads and the poems?02br
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0020.00 00The poet calls the children living and the rest all dead. Why does he say this?02br
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