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Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

NCERT Solutions for Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda) — CBSE Class 12 English.

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1What will counting upto twelve and keeping still help us achieve?Show solution
Counting up to twelve and keeping still will help us pause from our hurried lives and experience a moment of quiet introspection. In that silence, people may gain self-understanding, feel unity with others, and stop harming nature and one another, even if only for a short time.

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2Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?Show solution
No. The poet does not advocate total inactivity or death. He says that what he wants should not be confused with total inactivity. He only wants a moment of stillness and silence so that people can reflect, understand themselves, and renew life more meaningfully.

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3What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to in the poem?
4What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there
can be life under apparent stillness?

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