KEEPING QUIET
Very short answer type questions:
1. Who is the poet of Keeping quiet?
Ans:- The poet of the poem Keeping Quiet is Pablo Neruda
2. What at the poet 'Keeping Quiet' wish us to do?
Ans:- The poet of Keeping Quiet wants all the people of the earth to keep silent and experience an exotic moment.
3. What is an exotic moment in 'Keeping Quiet??
Ans:- Exotic moment in Keeping Quiet means an extraordinary moment of peace that is away from the din and rush of the modern life.
4. How can we all together in a sudden strangeness?
Ans:- The moment of stillness will be a strange moment for us as we will all enjoy that sudden moment together.
5. What is meant by green wars?
Ans:-Green wars imply waging a war against nature by causing environmental degradation.
6. How can one wear 'clean clothes' in Neruda's poem?
Ans:- One can wear clean clothes in Neruda's poem by avoiding wars and maintaining peace.
class 12 keeping quiet question answer
Short answer type questions :
1) What is the meaning of
(a) wars with gas
Ans:- a) ‘Wars with gas' are chemical warfare's in which poisonous gases are used as weapons.
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2) Who are the brothers' mentioned in the poem?
Ans:- All the people on the earth are referred to as brothers' in the
poem. They are all bound together by a universal fraternity.
3) What is the likely confusion regarding Neruda's desire?Ans:- Neruda's exhortation to keep quiet and still for a moment should · not be confused with an advocacy of total ‘in activity' He believes that
life is an ‘on going’ process and so he does not want to associate it with inactivity or death.
4. What is the meaning of want no truck with death?
Ans:- Neruda does not believe in inactivity. Life to him is an on going process and so he does not want to associate it with death or bring it to a dead end.
5. What can finally teach us as noted in Neruda's poem?
Ans:- Neruda in his poem “Keeping Quiet' points out that it is the mother earth which teaches us the virtue of Keeping Quiet and still. In winter everything on the earth seems dead. But life continuous under apparent stillness and in spring we find what earlier seemed dead are in fact coming to life. The mother earth silently nurtures and sustains life.
6. How will it later prove to be alive??
Ans:- Life is an eternal and ongoing process. Man is caught in the cycle of birth to rise from the dead reminds.
CLASS 12 KEEPING QUIet QUESTION ANSWERS
Keeping quiet question answer
Long Answer type question:
1. What sentiments does the poet want to convey?
Ans:- The poet in this poem expresses a very simple yet important fact about us fresh inspiration to march forward in the difficult paths of life. Modern life is full of complexities and human beings have to toil hard to manage the affairs of their lives, often they are trapped in inescapable situations and find no solution. Many people suffer mental anxieties and become depressed. This happens because we fail to know and understand ourselves properly. We need to sometimes examine our inner conscience and try to gain right directions of life. The poet says that if not much we can spare a few seconds from our busy daily schedules to introspect. For this he suggests us to wait a while and count up to twelve, them to become fully quiet and forget everything about the material world. The machines, the important tasks, troubles must be forgotten for those few moments we will fed relieved and will experience a strange feeling of oneness with ourselves. After this we will get a new strength within ourselves and are revitalized with vigor. The poet says that in this way we can start our lives a new and in a better way.
2. What does Neruda wish to achieve by maintaining silence?
Ans:- Counting till twelve and keeping quiet for a moment will provide us an opportunity for quite introspection. This moment of silence will be an exotic moment without the mad rush of modern life and without the language created distinctions when we can have for once a feeling of all being together in a strange way. It will be the moment when no man will be engaged in the destruction of nature through wars or other activities. The moment of silence, the poet hopes, might interrupt our meaningless and mad pursuit of after materialistic achievements and make as think about the cause of sadness and the void that has filled our life. It is only in quiet introspection we can realize this void.
3. What according to the poet would be the impact of self introspection on different people?
Ans:- The poet vividly expresses how self introspection would effect different people in the world differently. He says that the fishermen of the deep sea would stop for a moment to kill the whale blindly, they would then fish only as much as they need for their living.
The men engaged in collection of salt would look at their hurt hands and pause. They would feel that they had already gathered enough salt already and should stop being greedy. They would be inspired to collect salt only for their requirement and not in endless abundance. "
The most important impact of introspection would be on the war fighters. The planners of new wars would be able shift their minds from planning and feeling wars to other conductive things. They would be able to feel that the world around them have other beautiful things and facts to offer them. The deadly weapons, gases and dead bloodstained bodies would be seen absent and enemies of wars would more around like brothers. They would sit idly under the shade of trees and enjoy the time away from the terror of battlefields.
KEEPing quite question answer class 12
4. Explain the following lines.
(a) Let's not speak in any language
(b) It would be an exotic moment
(c) Would put on clean clothes
(d) I want no truck with death
(e) Now I'll count up to twelve
Ans:- (a) People in this world are divided on the basis of languages they speak. Once we are silent for a moment all differences will disappear and we will be bound by the common string of humanity.
Ans:-(b) The poet feels If all men at a time keep quiet for a moment and indulge in introspection, they would experience an 'exotic moment' without the mad rush of the modern life and have a rare feeling of all being together.
Ans:-(c) The poet wants the war makers who prepare wars with gas and fire and destroy the world to ponder in the moment of silence that their victory will be without survivors so the poet ants them to forsake wars and seance their minds of hatred and put on clean clothes. Here clean clothes are symbolic of purity minds.
Ans:-(d) The poet does not believe in inactivity. Life according to him, is an on going process and so he does not want to associate it with death or bring it to a dead end.
Ans:-(e) The poet asks men to keep quiet and experience the ex-static moment of silence which will create a rejuvenation of thoughts when he starts to counting up to twelve.
5. How can we all be together according to Neruda?
Ans:- According to Neruda the silent moment will help the people feels that all are together and united also, this feelings of ownless will please all...
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