The poet tells us that he feels more at home with animals than humans, whom he finds complicated and false.
কবি আমাদের বলেন যে তিনি প্রাণীদের সঙ্গে বেশি স্বস্তিবোধ করেন মানুষের তুলনায়, যাদের তিনি জটিল ও মিথ্যাবাদী মনে করেন।
I think I could turn and live with animals, they areso 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,
MCQs from the Poem
1. Who does the poet wish to live with?
A) Humans
B) Animals
C) Birds
D) Nature
2. How does the poet describe animals?
A) Restless and greedy
B) Placid and self-contained
C) Sad and miserable
D) Proud and aggressive
3. What do animals not do, according to the poet?
A) Sweat and whine about their condition
B) Fight with each other
C) Work hard for survival
D) Live peacefully
4. What do animals never do at night?
A) Sleep peacefully
B) Lie awake and weep for their sins
C) Hunt for food
D) Dream about the future
5. What is the poet's opinion about humans discussing their duty to God?
A) He admires it
B) It makes him happy
C) It makes him sick
D) He ignores it
6. What does the poet say about animals and dissatisfaction?
A) Some animals are dissatisfied
B) All animals are dissatisfied
C) No animal is dissatisfied
D) Only wild animals are dissatisfied
7. What does the poet say about animals and material possessions?
A) They crave for wealth
B) They fight over land
C) They are obsessed with money
D) They are not mad about owning things
8. What do animals not do in relation to their ancestors?
A) Worship them
B) Obey them
C) Talk about them
D) Search for their history
9. What is the poet's view on respectability among animals?
A) Animals are very respectful
B) Animals compete for respect
C) No animal is respectable or unhappy
D) Only a few animals are respectable
10. What do animals bring to the poet?
A) Food
B) Tokens of himself
C) Messages from nature
D) A sense of fear
11. How do animals show their connection with the poet?
A) By obeying his commands
B) By bringing him gifts
C) By evincing tokens of him
D) By living in groups
12. What does the poet wonder at the end?
A) How animals became so wise
B) Where the animals got their tokens
C) Why animals fear humans
D) How humans lost their innocence
13. What does the poet suspect he did long ago?
A) Taught animals how to behave
B) Lived among animals
C) Negligently dropped the tokens
D) Fought against nature
14. What does the phrase "not one kneels to another" suggest?
A) Animals are disrespectful
B) Animals are independent and equal
C) Animals worship their leaders
D) Animals lack emotions
15. What lesson does the poet learn from animals?
A) The importance of materialism
B) The need to fight for power
C) How to live peacefully without worries
D) The value of human superiority
16. What literary device is mainly used in the poem?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Personification
17. Who is the poet of the poem?
A) Robert Frost
B) William Wordsworth
C) Walt Whitman
D) John Keats
Answers:
- B) Animals
- B) Placid and self-contained
- A) Sweat and whine about their condition
- B) Lie awake and weep for their sins
- C) It makes him sick
- C) No animal is dissatisfied
- D) They are not mad about owning things
- A) Worship them
- C) No animal is respectable or unhappy
- B) Tokens of himself
- C) By evincing tokens of him
- B) Where the animals got their tokens
- C) Negligently dropped the tokens
- B) Animals are independent and equal
- C) How to live peacefully without worries
- A) Metaphor
- C) Walt Whitman
তারা কত শান্ত ও আত্মসন্তুষ্ট,
আমি দাঁড়িয়ে তাদের দিকে দীর্ঘ সময় তাকিয়ে থাকি।
তারা তাদের অবস্থান নিয়ে ঘাম ঝরায় না বা অভিযোগ করে না,
তারা অন্ধকারে জেগে থেকে তাদের পাপের জন্য কাঁদে না,
তারা ঈশ্বরের প্রতি দায়িত্ব নিয়ে কথা বলে আমাকে ক্লান্ত করে না,
কেউ অসন্তুষ্ট নয়, কেউ সম্পত্তির উন্মাদনায় পাগল নয়,
কেউ অন্যের সামনে নত হয় না,
না তার পূর্বপুরুষদের সামনে, যারা হাজার হাজার বছর আগে বেঁচে ছিল,
কেউ ভদ্রতার মুখোশ পরে না বা দুঃখী নয় এই পৃথিবীর বুকে।
তাদের আচরণই আমার কাছে তাদের সম্পর্কের পরিচয় দেয়,
আমি তা মেনে নিই,
তারা আমারই চিহ্ন এনে দেয়,
এবং তা স্পষ্টভাবে প্রকাশ করে তাদের নিজের মাঝে।
আমি ভাবি, তারা এই চিহ্নগুলো কোথায় পেল?
আমি কি অতীতে এই পথ দিয়ে গিয়েছিলাম
এবং অসাবধানতাবশত সেগুলো ফেলে এসেছিলাম?
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