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
<span>a word, letter, or number placed before another. (noun)
or
</span><span>add (something) at the beginning as a prefix or introduction.(verb)</span>
Tom is the main narrator.