I’m so confused. what am i answering
Found one: <span> The great black forest--stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom--became the playmate of the lonely infant, as well as it knew how.</span>
Answer:
he respects animals because they have retained those values and tokens which human seen to have already lost. in this poem the poet whitman compares man to animals . he finds that man lacks many virtues that animals have .the poet desires to live among the animala because thet are calm and self cofident
