poems and their sense 5th year

POEMS AND THEIR SENSE 

If we took a walk down the river, we would start at the source, a spring then.

This stream flows across the Common and kisses with laughter, a tributary, under the railway embankment.

Across the wide flatlands, there is a group of allotments, 

the soil fertile from the Ice Age

and more recent accumulations of love done and finished in the marshes.

And

I had one romantic dream

and designed a perfect trip through Europe,

a "story" I wish I could re-read, re-watch, and re-live over and over again 

backwards the rest of my life.

A "story" to compensate her back for in return.

Across all the forgotten places of Europe, I took her with me,

by cottages with old people and by streams where life just went on in silence,

the old peoples love long extinguished by memory but not by  nearness

and one day they were you and me.

Old people like this  you passed on trains in places you would never see again, they will be you and me, and love 

will be extinguished 

but nearness will continue

1.What does it mean "backwards the rest of  my life"

2.The line To compensate her back for in return. What is the normal language to say this

3.What happens to the two lovers in the end.Are they happy 

4.Why do you think the poet has one romantic dream

5.5. what does the poet mean about love and nearness

6.Whats the difference between a poem and a story