KEEPING QUIET
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep stil
for once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language
let’s stop for one second.
and not move our arms so much.
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1.Why does the poet urge us to count twelve?
Answer=The poet urges us to count twelve to enable us to introspect and to lead a life of better mutual understanding.
2.What does the poet mean by “not move our arms so much”?
OR
What should we not do for a second?
ANSWER= What should not move our arms to kill others we should keep quiet for a second others. we should keep quiet for a second and we should not cause harm others.
3.Why does he ask us to keep still and not any language?
OR
“Let’s us not speak in any language” -why?
ANSWER= We should not speak in any language to avoid indulging in any disputes and quarrels.
4.Who is the poem of “Keeping quiet”?
ANSWER=Pablo Neruda is the paid of “keeping quiet”.
5.How long does the poet want to stay still?
ANSWER= The poet wants to stay still only for a second.
6.What is the real name of Pable Neruda?
ANSWER= The real name is Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
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It would be an exotic movement
without rush without engines
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
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1.What would be an exotic moment?
ANSWER=keeping quiet for a few second without rush and engines would be an exotic movement.
2.What is the name of poem from which these lines are taken?
Answer=The name of poem is keeping quiet by Palbo Neruda.
3.What kind of movement will it be?
ANSWER=It will be an exotic movement.
4.What will happen if there is no rush or running of engines?
ANSWER= If there is no rush or running of engines then we all would be together in a sudden strangeness.
5.How all of us would feel at that movement?
ANSWER=All of us would feel happiness meeting each other.
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Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
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1.What does the fisherman do in the cold water?
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In what activity do the fisherman engage in the cold wonder?
ANSWER= The fisherman engages in the cold water to catch fish.
2.What has happened to the man gathering salt?
ANSWER= The man gathering salt has hunt hands.
3.What should the man gathering salt do?
ANSWER= The man gathering salt should take care of his hands.
4.Find word from the passage that mean word meaning?
These who catch fish = Fisherman
collecting = Gathering
The biggest of all fishers = Whale fishes.
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These who prepare green wars
Wars with gas, wars with fire.
victory with survivors,
would put clear cloths
and walk about with their
brothers in the shade, doing nothing.
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1.What are the different kinds of war as mentioned in the passage?
ANSWER= The different kinds of wars are green war with fire.
2.What should the war mongers do?
ANSWER= The war mongers should divert their mind and put on good and clean cloths. They should
cease all harmful actions and live with their brothers under the shady trees.
3.What kind of victory do they achieve?
ANSWER= They achieve a victory with no survivors.
4.word to meaning?
Jriumphy-victory = win
war against environment = Green war
These left alive = survivers.
5.What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achiqre?
ANSWER= Counting up to twelve and keeping quiet will help us in creating a feeling of mutual understanding and introspection among human beings. he will keep us away from harmful activities.
6.DO you think that the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
Ans: – No,the poet does not advocate total inactivity and death. There is always life under apparent stillness. To live people, have to work only the dead can enjoy total inactivity.
7.What is the ‘sadness’ that the poem refers to in the poem?
ANSWER= The poet refers to the ‘sadness’ of never understanding ourself in this vast would. The poem also refers to the sadness of threating ourselves with death.
8.What symbol from nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?
Answer=The poet invokes the symbol of earth and nature to stay that there can be life under apparent stillness. In the autumn season and winter season everything seems deed. But in the spring season all the sleeping earth come alive with new plants.
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What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death.
If we were not single – minded about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.
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1.What does the poet not want himself to be?
Ans: The poet does not want to be misunderstood that he supports on total inactivity.
2.When can a huge silence do us good?
Ans: When we are threatening ourselves with death then huge silence can do us good.
3.What does the poet mean by “I want no truck with death”?
Ans: By the above line the poet means that he has no association with death he does not advocate total inactivity which only the dead can enjoy.
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Perhaps the Earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive. Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet, and I will go.
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1.What does the Earth teach us?
Ans: The Earth teaches us that there can be life under apparent stillness in winter season everything seems dead, but in the spring season everything of the sleeping earth come alive with new plants.
2.Why does the poet count up to twelve?
Ans: The poet counts up to twelve to enable us to introspect and to lead a life of better mutual
understanding among human being.
3.What will keeping quiet will help us to achieve?
Ans: Keeping quiet will help us in creating a feeling of mutual understanding.
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