Poem – 7

Animals

In this post, we have given the Important Questions of Poem 7 “Animals”. It is the 7th chapter of Class 10th English.

Board	CBSE Board, UP Board, JAC Board, HBSE Board, UBSE Board, PSEB Board, RBSE Board
Textbook	NCERT
Class	Class 10
Subject	English Beehive
Chapter no.	Poem 7
Chapter Name	Animals
Category	Class 10 English Important Questions
Medium	English

Poem 7 Animals

Question 1. 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?

Answer: In this line here, the poet wants to turn from human into an animal. This turning is symbolic of the poet’s detachment from human beings and their nature and his appreciation of the animal kind.

Question 2. Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t.

Answer: Animals do not cry and complain over their conditions. They do not. commit sins and therefore do not weep for them. They are also very satisfied creatures and have no desire to possess material things. Humans, on the contrary, complain all the time, commit all sorts of sins and are affected with the madness of owning things.

Question 3. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago? Discuss this in groups.

Answer: Yes, humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago as it is a cultural tradition to do so. (Students can discuss their own culture with their classmates and share the rituals and traditions of their culture and also get to know about other cultural practices.)

Question 4. 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?)

Answer: The tokens mentioned in the poem mean the symbols of the true nature of human beings. These tokens are actually tokens of virtue such as containment, honesty, innocence and the likes of it.

Question 5. Why does the poet want to ‘turn and live’ with animals?

Answer.  Animals are satisfied and self-contained. They have better values than those of the humAnswer. The poet finds animals more comfortable than humAnswer.

Question 6. In the first line of the poem, ‘I think I could turn and live with the animals’, What is the poet turning from?

Answer. The poet Walt Whitman says that he can identify himself better with the animals, for their qualities of serenity and calm composure. So he intends turning towards them, away from his human companions.

Question 7. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago?

Answer. Yes, many communities of humans follow the practice of worshipping saints and sages, who lived thousand of years, and led an exemplary life of high moral values and therefore reflect the image of ‘God Almighty’ and are worshipped by generations of humAnswer.

Question 8. What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago and which the animals have kept for him?

Answer. Humans and animals have similar basic instincts. While civilization has changed the man, these basic instincts are preserved in the animals and they help the humans to reconnect to their true self; so man seeks comfort in the company of animals.

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