"Children" Poem Review

Who is speaking in lines 3-15 of the poem? 

• A women with a baby

• A prophet

• A higher being

• The author, Khalil Gibran

The main idea of this poem is: 

• Parents should control their children, so they don’t make mistakes. 

• Parents should use technology to help raise their children. 

• Parents should let their children be free and seek their own future. 

• Children determine how they should be raised based on their personality. 

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In the metaphor of the bow and arrow, who does the arrow represent?

• Children

• Parents

• Higher being

• Friends

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In the metaphor of the bow and arrow, who does the archer represent?

• Parents

• Grandparents

• a higher being, God

• Community and family

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In the metaphor of the bow and arrow, who does the bow represent?

• Extended family

• Parents

• Children

• High being

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In the metaphor of the bow and arrow, the bow should be:

• broken

• rigid

• wobbly

• stable

According to lines 12-15, the metaphor of the bow and arrow, what impact does the archer have on the children? 

• The archer teaches children how to think. 

• The archers sets the path of children’s lives. 

• The archer influences how children see their parents. 

• The archer causes children to leave their parents’ home. 

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What do the following lines mean?

“Your Children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” Lines 3-4 

• Parents want to care for their children, but sometimes that becomes a desire for control. 

• Children do not really belong to parents, they are not their possessions. They belong to a higher power.

• A higher power determines a child’s destiny and uses parents to help a child move into the world.

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What do the following lines means?

“You may give them your love but not your thoughts.” “You may house their bodies but not their souls” “You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.” Lines 7, 9, 11 

• A higher power determines a child’s destiny and uses parents to help a child move into the world.

• Children do not really belong to parents, they are not their possessions. They belong to a higher power.

• Parents want to care for their children, but sometimes that becomes a desire for control. 

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What does the following line of the poem mean?

"The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.” Line 13 

• A higher power determines a child’s destiny and uses parents to help a child move into the world.

• Parents want to care for their children, but sometimes that becomes a desire for control. 

• Children do not really belong to parents, they are not their possessions. They belong to a higher power.

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