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Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda - Questions and Answers

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Q1. Which moment is referred to here and how will it be? Q2. How would we feel at that moment?
Ans. it will be a moment of peace and introspection. It will be a strange and attractive moment that will bring us closer.

Q3. How will it bring all of us together? 2. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow: What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death. Questions Q1. What is it that should not be confused with total inactivity?
Ans. We will realize a feeling of oneness.
Q2. What is the life about?
Ans. By keeping quiet and still, we all will feel alike as if we are together.
Q3. Explain: "no truck with death".
Ans. It is the moment of silence that should not be confused with total inactivity.
3. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow: Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victory with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. Questions Q1. In which wars are there no survivors?
Ans. Life is about actions and dynamism. It must go on. The efforts to keep the race alive cannot be suspended even for a day. Action is essence of life.
Q2. Who would put on clean clothes?
Ans. Total inactivity is a synonym of death and he has no association with death. This short silence is very much alive and a preparation for renewed hectic activity.
Q3. What does 'put on clean clothes' signify?
Ans. There are no survivors in the wars of poisonous gases and the war of firearms.
4. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow: If we were not so 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. Questions Q1. What will happen if we go on thinking single-minded?
Ans. The war-wagers would put on clean clothes.
Q2. How can we understand ourselves?
Ans. 'Put on clean clothes' signifies the feelings of their mutual understanding.
Q3. In what way can huge silence dispel sadness?
Ans. In case we go on thinking single minded, we will remain busy in worldly activities, thereby we won't find time for self-introspection. It will be a sad situation.
Q4. What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem?
Ans. We can understand ourselves through self-introspection.
Q5. Why does the poet want us to 'do nothing' for once?
Ans. Huge silence will remove all our tension, violence and warfare. It will do away with all our sadness.
Q7. How we can know ourselves?
Ans. The poet Pablo Neruda refers to 'sadness' which we form out of our own thinking and actions. We understand a lot of things but fail to understand ourselves and our actions and this becomes the creator of all disasters. This is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem
Q8. Identify 'we'.
Ans. The poet wants to do nothing for once, here he specifies that we should cease all our activities in order to have introspection within ourselves so that we can realize the exotic moment.
5. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow: Perhaps the Earth can teach us a 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.
Ans. We can know ourselves through introspection.
Q1. What does the earth teach us?
Ans. 'We' here refers to all human beings.
Q2. What does the poet mean to achieve by counting upto twelve?
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Q3. What is the significance of 'Keeping Quiet'?
Ans. The earth teaches us how life springs from dead things. It further teaches us to realize life under stillness.
Short Answer Type Questions Q1. Why does the poet want us to keep quiet?
Ans. He wants us to achieve peace by counting upto twelve.
Q2. Does the poet advocate total inactivity and death by suggesting being quiet?
Ans. 'Keeping quiet' means that we should avoid all those activities which hurt the nature.
Q3. Why does not the poet want us to speak in any language?
Ans. Keeping quiet will develop a better understanding among human beings and allow us to establish communion with our fellow beings at spiritual level.
Q4. What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us achieve?

Ans. No, the poet does not advocate it. He wants no truck with death. In fact he wants to live life full bloodedly. But by advocating quietness he wants mixing of physical and spiritual aspect of life.
Q5. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
Ans. The poet wants us not to speak in any language to introspect and know what we are about- know the meaning of our existence. He wants everybody to know his spirit and have spiritual contact with others for sometimes for which no language is required.
Q6. What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem?
Ans. Counting up to twelve and keeping quiet will assist us in attaining a state of peace in which we will be able to introspect and thus, see and appreciate the benefits of the symbiotic relationship that would exist between humans and between man and nature.
Q7. What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?
Ans. The poet does not advocate total inactivity and death, but he does advise that we introspect deeply and not indulge in activity that is mindless and thus potentially destructive for human beings and for the balance that should exist between man and nature.
Q8. According to the poet, what is that human beings can learn from nature?
Ans. Man fails to understand themselves. They are always threatening themselves with death. When they do not understand themselves, they become sad. Only silence might interrupt this sadness and make them happy.

Ans. Life under apparent stillness can be seen in nature. During the winter season, the earth under the snow looks dead, with no activity and no growth. But when the spring comes, the snow melts away, the seeds sprout and the grass grows. All activities of life start again.

Ans. Nature teaches us a lot of things. We must learn that all things are bound together and depend on each other for their survival. We should introspect ourselves by remaining calm and composed. So it teaches us to be quiet and still. It is no use to hinder others. We should grow and develop at our own Place. We must be contended with what we possess. There is no need for greed. The nature always remains alive.

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INTROSPECTION,RETROSPECTION,ANALYSIS,SELF EVALUATION
--POWER OF SILENCE
--FISHERMEN SYMBOLIZE MEN INDISCRIMINATELY EXPLOITING NATURE FOR VESTED INTERESTS
--TOTAL INACTIVITY IMPLIES INTROSPECTION NOT DEATH LIKE SILENCE...LIFE IS AN ONGOING PROCESS AND HUMANITY SHOULD MOVE ON.
--MEDITATION HELPS REJUVENATE &REVEL IN THAT EXOTIC MOMENT
---ART OF RESURRECTING&PRESERVING LIFE ON EARTH......LIFE UNDER THE APPARENT STILLNESS....CYCLE OF BIRTH,DEATH,DECAY &RENEWAL CONTINUES.

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PABLO NERUDA(1904-1973)

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