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01font01font00Could someone please have a look at the following texts, and make sure that sentence structure, flow, punctuation, mood, and tense are presented in a manner that makes sense, while looking out for inconsistencies02font00.02font00 02br
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01b01u00Introduction 02u02br
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00“Children” is one of the best loved poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It illustrates many of the characteristics of his mode of writing. The rhymes and meters he has used in it stay in the mind long after the sense may be forgotten. The poem touches the heart through its strong theme of how important children are to the world. In the poem, Longfellow records his feelings about children. He feels that they enable us to see the world more clearly, and enjoy our lives. He likens them and their thoughts to many things, but admits they are better than all.02br
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01b01u00Major Theme02u02b02br
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00The major theme of the poem is that children are our gateway to nature. They bring beautiful colours into the world and our lives with their innocence. If there were no children, the world and our lives both would be colourless and meaningless and soulless. There would be no light of hope, nor a tiny flicker of gaiety. The past would turn out to be a desert, and the future looming death.02br
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01font00(By the way,02font01font00 00do I strat the main theme with 01b00The major theme of the poem, that children are our gateway to nature, lies in its 4th stanza.02b00 or 01b00The major theme of the poem is that children are our gateway to nature02b00? I am quite confused here. I think it’s save not to specify the stanza the main theme lies in.00 00Please give me your kind suggestions.)02font02br
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00Aging, decaying and dying is the minor theme. Everything starts new and shiny and innocent, then gets older and less nice, and finally dies.02br
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01font00Thanks a trillion in advance.05002font010id1