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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?
2. Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t.
3. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago?
4. What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the animals have kept for him? (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?)
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