B because the feral cat symbolizes the girl being poor the fact that it has one eye and keeps stealing enough food to stay alive show how the cat is over coming the expectations.
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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