EXTRA QUESTIONS
Why does the poet like animals?
Explain the satisfaction that animals have and humans don’t.
Why do animals not weep for their sins?
What makes the poet sick?
Differentiate between humans and animals in terms of desire?
What does the poet mean by,” Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth”?
What according to you should be the virtues that humans should possess?
It is not complaining but accepting a situation, the key to happiness in life. Elaborate in context of the poem Animals’.
Answers
Answer:-
1A.In the modern civilised world, human beings have achieved a lot of material values but lost the real virtues. The more developed and modern human beings became, the more they lost the essence of their characters. Animals, whereas, never adapted to any material goods and always remained natural. This natural aspect of animals has helped them maintain their values. Humans, in order to possess more and more have forgotten kindness and innocence.
Animals Poem Question and Answers
Q1- Notice the use of the word ‘turn’ in the first line, “I think I could turn and live with animals…” What is the poet turning from?
A1- The poet is turning away from living in the world of human beings. He finds animals more placid and self contained and therefore, he wants to live with them.
Q2- Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t?
A2- The three things that humans do and animals don’t are as follows:
Humans complain and cry about the miseries and sorrows they face.
Humans lie awake in the night thinking about their wrongdoings.
Humans also keep telling others about their religiousness and duties towards God.
Q3- Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss this in groups?
A3- Yes humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago. They could be some ancestors, saints or the preachers whom they follow religiously. They worship them and follow their preaching.
Q4- What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the animals have kept for him? Discuss this in class. (Hint: Whitman belongs to the Romantic tradition that includes Rousseau and Wordsworth, which holds that civilisation has made humans false to their own true nature. What could be the basic aspects of our nature as living beings that humans choose to ignore or deny?)
A4- The word tokens according to the poet is the good qualities in human beings. The poet feels that nowdays good qualities do not exist in human beings. They have lost them for the sake of worldly things which they want to achieve at any cost.
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coz poet is a animal ok darling??