Animals — Chapter Summary
Maharashtra Board · Class 10 · English
Summary of Animals for Maharashtra Board Class 10 English. Key concepts: The speaker says he could live, Humans sweat and Animals are said to have no.
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Overview
Notice the sharp contrast between humans and animals in Whitman’s lines: animals appear calm, self-sufficient, and free from the worries that trouble people. The speaker admires this freedom and feels more comfortable with animals than with humans, whom he sees as complicated and false. The poem als
Key Concepts
The speaker says he could live
The speaker says he could live with animals because they seem calm, self-contained, and free from human worries. He feels closer to animals than to pe
Humans sweat
Humans sweat, complain, lie awake with guilt, and discuss duty, while animals do not. The poem presents animals as peaceful and untroubled.
Animals are said to have no
Animals are said to have no craze for owning things. They are not ruled by greed or social competition.
Here
Here, ‘respectable’ means too happy and satisfied, not having social status. The line suggests that animals are neither falsely proud nor unhappy.
‘Tokens’ refers to virtues such as
‘Tokens’ refers to virtues such as innocence, simplicity, and contentment. The speaker believes animals possess these qualities naturally.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the speaker’s attitude toward animals and humans
- Explain why the speaker admires animals
- Identify the meaning of important words such as placid, self-contain'd, respectable, mania, and tokens
- Recognize the free verse style used by Walt Whitman
- Analyze the central ideas of simplicity, innocence, and dissatisfaction in the poem
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