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• What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the animals have kept for him ? Discuss this in class. (Hint: Whitman belongs to the Romantic tradition that includes Rousseau and Wordsworth, which holds that civilisation has made humans false to their own true nature. What could be the basic aspects of our nature as living beings that humans choose to ignore or deny ?
• Explain the satisfaction that animals have and humans don’t.
• What makes the poet sick ?
• Why do animals not weep for their sins ?
• ‘Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented with……………’A. RepetitionB. LitotesC. MetaphorD. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
• Why does the poet like animals?
• ‘They bring me tokens of myself………….’A. MetaphorB. SimileC. EuphemismD. Personification
• Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago ? Discuss this in groups.
• ‘I stand and look at them long and long’.A. AlliterationB. RepetitionC. MetaphorD. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
• Why does Walt Whitman, feel more at home with animals ?ORWhy does Walt Whitman want to live with animals ?