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Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Poet and Central Idea

  • Pablo Neruda is the pen name of Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
  • He was born in Parral, Chile.
  • He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
2

Meaning of the Opening Lines

  • The poem begins with a call to count to twelve and keep still.
  • This creates an immediate sense of pause and discipline.
  • The counting gives structure to silence and makes the stillness collective, not personal.
3

Images of Silence and Peace

  • The poem imagines a moment without speech, rush, engines, or unnecessary movement.
  • This moment is described as exotic because it is unusual and unfamiliar.
  • The stillness brings a sudden strangeness, showing how rare such calm is in daily life.
4

War, Violence, and Brotherhood

  • The poem directly refers to those who prepare green wars.
  • It also mentions wars with gas and wars with fire.
  • Victory with no survivors shows the futility of war.

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The poem begins with the speakerThe speaker asks people notIn the imagined stillnessThose who prepare green warsThe speaker clearly says that

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