Question

what is the token refer in the above line​

Answer 1

Answer- The above question is from the poem 'Animals' composed by 'Walt Whitman'.

The poet emphasises on the fact that animals are much better, loyal, kinder than the humans who cry for their sins and have left all the moral values behind.

Here is the poem:

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?

Given question: What is the 'token' referred to in the above line?​

Answer: In the above line, the 'token' refers to the values of simplicity, kindness, loyalty and non-materialism which have been left by the humans but are still present in the animals.