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What two attributes of the Animals please the poet?

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What two attributes of the Animals please the poet?

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The poet is glad to see that animals never complain about their lot or circumstances; they show no difference between pleasure and suffering. Also, they don't have any kind of falsehood.

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2021-2022 (March) Delhi Set 2

संबंधित प्रश्न

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?


Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss this in groups.


Put the following attributes/abilities.

  1. self-control
  2. communicates
  3. love and care
  4. cooks
  5. good manners
  6. has 360° vision
  7. shows gratitude
  8. lives for more than 150 years
  9. swims
  10. learns computing
  11. worships god
  12. sleeps in standing position
  13. stands up immediately after birth
  14. brings up children
  15. belongs to various species


At times, especially when you are frustrated, you wish you were an animal/a bird/a fish/a butterfly and not a human being.
Say which of the above you would choose to transform to and give 3 or 4 reasons for your choice.

I wish I could be a ............................................


Match the words given in table A with their meanings in table B.

No A
Words
  B
Meaning
(i) whine (a) an offence against religious or moral law
(ii) sin (b) complain in an annoying way
(iii) evince (c) craze
(iv) mania (d) failing to take proper care
(v) negligent (e) show

Animals do not complain about ______.


Animals do not merely discuss ______.


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 do not worship other animals.


With the help of the poem find the differences between animals and human beings.

Human beings Animals
Always complain about their condition Never complain about anything

Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:

Animals

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-containe’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?
                                                             - Walt Whitman

You can use the following points while appreciating the given poem.

  1. The title and the poet of the poem     [1]
  2. Rhyme scheme     [1]
  3. Figures of speech     [1]
  4. Central Idea/Theme     [2]

Mention any two reasons why Walt Whitman appreciates animals more than humans.


List any two things that animals do and humans don't.


'They do not sweat and whine about their condition.' What human traits does the poet condemn in these lines?


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