animals

1. ANIMALS

2. Human beings

3. WALT WHITMAN

4. ANIMALS BY: WALT WHITMAN

5. 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.

6. 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

7. PLACID CONTAINED CALM SELF -CONFIDENT

8. 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,

9. Sweat Salty liquid come out of the body Whine Complaint

10. 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.

11. Owing Demented Mad possessing

12. 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?

13. Question time

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

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

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

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

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