Desu is the present positive form of 'be': is. Ka is a question marker when the last sound in a sentence. Japanese grammar also puts desu at the end of sentences. So 'desu ka' is just a combination of the two. I could mean 'isn't it', but that's just a lose translation, I believe.
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2 poems that deal with the theme of childhood essays I have decided to write about once upon a time by Gabriel Okara and An Advancement In Learning by Seamus Heaney as two poems that deal with the theme of childhood. Both poems deal with the growing up of children