Question

Complete the following sentences with the help of the poem: (2)



(a)The poet wishes he could ______________________________

(b)Animals do not complain about ___________________________

(c)Animals do not merely discuss_____________________________

(d)Animals are not crazy about_________________________________

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are

so placid and self-contain’d

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with

the mania of owning things.

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that

lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

So they show their relations to me and I accept them,

They bring me tokens of myself, they evince

them plainly in their possession

I wonder where they get those tokens,

Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?

(A2) The qualities of animals that are highlighted by the poet in the poem

are (2)



________________________________________________________________

(A3) Name and explain the figures of speech. (1)

‘I stand and look at them long and long’.

________________________________________________________________

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Answer 1

Answer:

a- have lived with animals.

b- their difficulties but they adjust everything.

c- about their sweats and hunger but they adjust in what they get.

d- happiness or sadness but they want to live and play with  us.

A2 - the qualities of Animals hidden are :-

i- they do not sweat or whine about their condition.

ii - they do not lie sleeping in the night but inspect their owners.

iii- they never let their owners go sick , they help them a lot

A3 - Alliteration as l is repeated in close connections.