SELF CONTAINED-Extra questions

SELF CONTAINED

Extra questions

Vocabulary

 complicated: complex

 false: untrue

 placid: calm, peaceful, serene

 sins : offence

 dissatisfied :not contented

Q1.Why does Whitman want to live with animals?

Walt Whitman finds that animals have many exemplary qualities that men are lacking. They remain very calm, quiet and satisfied. They have no worries. That is why Whitman wants to live with them.

Q2. Notice the use of the world turn in the first line,” I think I could turn and live with animals....” What is the poet turning from?

The poet wants to turn from the company of human beings. He wants to go and live in the company of birds, animals and nature.

Q3. Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t.

Humans keep grumbling /complaining about their condition. They weep in the dark over their sins. They keep worrying about their duty to God. Animals don’t have to do any of these things.

Q4. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago?

Yes, humans do kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago. We give them such names as god's goddesses, saints and prophets and keep bowing to them.

Q5. What are the things that humans do but animals don’t?

Men are always unhappy and discontented. They keep on complaining. They go crazy for materialistic things. Animals do none of these things. They are always happy and contended. They don’t have to weep over their sins.

Q6. Many of us project human qualities onto animals, particularly our pets. Walt Whitman seems to reverse this inclination and to find in animals the absence of bothersome qualities he finds in humans. the traditional boundaries between humans and animals continues to fade .

Q7. Name and explain the figure of speech in the line ‘I stand and look at them, and long, and long’

Repetition: The word ‘long’ is repeated for poetic effect.