NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Animals with Answer

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Animals with Answer

TextbookNCERT
Class 10th
Subject English 
Chapter6th
Chapter NameAnimals 
CategoryClass 10th English Question & Answer 
Medium English
SourceLast Doubt

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Animals with Answer

?Poem – 6?

✍Animals

?Question & Answer?

Thinking About the Poem

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Q.1

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.

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Q.2

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.

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Q.3

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.)

NCERT Solutions Class 10th English (First Flight Poem-6) Q.4

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.

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