Question

what is the relevance of tokens in the poem animals ? who brings them to the poet?

Answer 1

Answer: The poet says that it is better to live with animals as they show tokens of goodness. They are peaceful, self-contained and happy. Animals show innate goodness which is lacked in human beings. Animals do not grumble about their lives or cry over their sins.

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Answer 2

The tokens are brought to the poet by the animals. The relevance of tokens in the poem is that animals bring mutual relationships.

• According to the poet, animals bring to him the `tokens’ of himself. These tokens are a symbol of love, sympathy, honesty, and innocence.
• Earlier, both animals and humans had these tokens. But then humans started following the wrong path while the animals continued walking on the road leading to those tokens of noble virtues.
• Humans gave up their innocence and purity. Hence, dissatisfaction, greed, overambition, overpowered humans.
• These ‘tokens’ of virtuous living arouse the poet to those lost values again.