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प्रश्न
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?
(A1) Complete the following sentences with the help of the poem.
(a) The poet wishes he could.............................
(b) Animals do not complain about............................
(c) Animals do not merely discuss.............................
(d) Animals are not crazy about .............................
(A2) The qualities of animals that highlighted by the poet in the poem are
.............................................................................................................
............................................................................................................
..........................................................................................................
(A3) Name and explain the figures of speech.
“I stand and look at them long and long.’’
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उत्तर
(A1) (a) The poet wishes he could live with animals.
(b) Animals do not complain about their condition.
(c) Animals do not merely discuss duty to God.
(d) Animals are not crazy about the owning things.
(A2)
(i) Animals are calm and self-contained.
(ii) They are happy with the resources they have, and not crazy for owning things.
(iii) They do not criticize what they already have like humans.
(iv) They don’t idle away their time discussing their duties to
God like a human.
(A3)
Repetition – word ‘long’ is repeated to give more poetic effect.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss this in groups.
Find adjectives from the poem which refer to positive and negative thinking.
| Positive | Negative |
| 1. ____________________ | 1. ____________________ |
| 2. ____________________ | 2. ____________________ |
| 3. ____________________ | 3. ____________________ |
Complete the following.
The poet wishes he could _____________.
Complete the following.
Animals are not crazy about ________________.
State whether the following statement is true or false.
Animals are self-reliant.
State whether the following statement is true or false.
Animals quarrel for their possessions.
State whether the following statement is true or false.
Animals suffer humiliation.
State whether the following statement is true or false.
The poet has retained all his natural virtues.
Read the text again, and complete the web, highlighting the good values/habits which we can learn from animals.
Walt Whitman speaks of the human race with a tinge of sarcasm. Which are the two reasons that you agree with?
