animals poem appreciation
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The central idea of the poem is that animals today are better than humans. The poet has broken away from the conventional use of a rhyme scheme and has written the poem in free verse. The chief figure of speech used in the poem is Repetition. ... The other figures of speech are Alliteration, Tautology.
In the poem "Animals" Walt Whitman admires the modesty of animals which he feels to be absent in the human race.
The poem like most of Whitman's work has an em-jammed structure with blank verses through which he characterizes the animals' uncomplicated and simple nature. Whitman discusses his need for a simpler life by presenting a desire to go and live with animals. He characterizes animals as selfless creatures which are detached from earthly desires. Animals according the poet do not whine and weep and despise their condition. It does not even bothers to be above each other putting others below. Animals do not drown in the lust of material objects and give respect to an ancestor which might be there a thousand years before.Whitman in his words is more discussing his wish to be an animal himself. As a man who has witnessed the hazard of slavery and the outbreak of Civil War, he appears to despise the ugly nature of man which leads to suppression of their own species and destruction. The materialistic desires and hunger for power makes one ambitious along with miserable. Whitman desires to escape this misery called man. He in plain words expresses the desire to be rather an animal than a man.In the last lines the poet wonders about the token of appreciation he got from animals but he lost them. In abstract words showing his concern for mankind who are lost and cannot find their way back to a simpler life.
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