I think I have a pretty good understanding, but would really appreciate others opinions to help me write a paper...
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they're 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 earth."
I am assuming he is just talking about how animals are content and happy compared to humans... it really says it all there. But, I know it probably is much deeper than that. What do you guys make of it?
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they're 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 earth."
I am assuming he is just talking about how animals are content and happy compared to humans... it really says it all there. But, I know it probably is much deeper than that. What do you guys make of it?