7. ANIMALS

10. ANIMALS
BY: WALT

12. In this poem the poet, Whitman
compares man to animals. He
finds that man lacks many virtues
that animals have. The poet says
that he feels more at home with
animal than human beings since
they are selfish, false, and always
dissatisfied, while animals shows
their love for us.

13. 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

14. PLACID
CALM
CONTAINED
SELF -CONFIDENT

15. 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,

16. Swea
t
Whine
Salty liquid come out of
the body
Complaint

17. Not one is dissatisfied, not one
is demented with the mania of
owing 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.

18. Demente
d
Mad
Owing
possessin

19. 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?

21. Q.1 What does Whitman want to
turn from?
a. Human being
b.Animal
c. Good quality
d. All of the above
Q.2 Whom does the poet wish to
live with?
a. Human being
b.Animal
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

22. Q 3. How do animals appear to the
poet?
a. Calm
b.Full of self confident
c. Well contented
d. All of these
Q 4. Who is/are always
complaining about their condition?
a. The poet
b.animals
c. human being
d. All of these

23. Q. 5 Animals don’t do?
a. Never sweat
b.Never complain
c. Never weep for sins
d. All of the above
Q. 6 Who kneels to another?
a. human being
b.Animal
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

24. Q. 7 According to Whitman
who are greater?
a. Human being
b.Animals
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
Q. 8 What do the
animals possess?
a. Kindness
b.Fellow-feeling for all
c. Sympathy
d. All of the above

25. Q. 9 What mania do the
human beings suffer from?
a. Possessing of things
b.Good quality
c. Peace
d. Contentment
Q. 10 Who is the poet?
a. Robert frost
b.W.B Yeats
c. Walt Whitman
d. Carl Sandburg