Question

Read the following extract and do the given activities.

A1. Match the words from cloud 'A' with cloud 'B':  (2)

Cloud 'A'	Cloud 'B'
(a) Stand and look	(i) Not one is demented
(b) Not one is dissatisfied	(ii) long and long
(c) They do not sweat	(iii) over the whole earth
(d) Not one is unhappy	(iv) about their condition

 

I think I could tum 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

A2. Why does Walt Whitman feel more at home with animals?  (2)

A3. Name and explain the figure of speech in the given sentence.  (1)

'They bring me tokens of myself'.  

Answer 1

A1.

Cloud 'A'	Answers
(a) Stand and look	(ii) long and long
(b) Not one is dissatisfied	(i) Not one is demented
(c) They do not sweat	(iv) about their condition
(d) Not one is unhappy	(iii) over the whole earth

A2. Animals are calm and independent. They don't stress about their circumstances or misdeeds. They are not sad, disrespectful, miserable, or insane from the insanity of possession. They demonstrate their connections to the poet. Walt Whitman, a poet, so feels more at home among them.

A3. The sentence above uses a metaphor as its figure of speech. Indirect comparisons are made between tokens and the traits of real people, such as kindness, integrity, and satisfaction. Humans once possessed these characteristics. These attributes now belong to animals because humans have lost them.