Question

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

Animals 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? -Walt Whitman

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

Answer 1

Human Beings	Animals
Always complain about their condition.	Never complain about their condition.
Spend sleepless nights regretting their sins.	Don’t regret their sins at all.
Sicken others by discussing their duty to God.	Do not discuss their duty to God.
Always dissatisfied.	Always contented.
Crazy about acquiring possessions.	Never interested in owning things.
Worship other human beings.	Never worship anyone of their kind.
Always unhappy about earthly matters.	Unconcerned about earthly matters.