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    Here are 30-40 word answers to the questions: Q.1. By being still for a while, man would benefit from an exotic moment of sudden strangeness without noise and rush of modern life. It would help him have some quiet introspection. Q.2. The poet refers to the fishermen and the man gathering salt to indicate that during the moment of stillness, even those engaged in tiring professions will forget their work/hardships and introspect. Q.3. The poet suggests that the war-mongers should put on clean clothes, walk with their brothers in shade and do nothing to bring an end to their cruel wars with no survivors like green wars or wars with gases and fire

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    Here are 30-40 word answers to the questions: Q.1. By being still for a while, man would benefit from an exotic moment of sudden strangeness without noise and rush of modern life. It would help him have some quiet introspection. Q.2. The poet refers to the fishermen and the man gathering salt to indicate that during the moment of stillness, even those engaged in tiring professions will forget their work/hardships and introspect. Q.3. The poet suggests that the war-mongers should put on clean clothes, walk with their brothers in shade and do nothing to bring an end to their cruel wars with no survivors like green wars or wars with gases and fire

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    Here are 30-40 word answers to the questions: Q.1. By being still for a while, man would benefit from an exotic moment of sudden strangeness without noise and rush of modern life. It would help him have some quiet introspection. Q.2. The poet refers to the fishermen and the man gathering salt to indicate that during the moment of stillness, even those engaged in tiring professions will forget their work/hardships and introspect. Q.3. The poet suggests that the war-mongers should put on clean clothes, walk with their brothers in shade and do nothing to bring an end to their cruel wars with no survivors like green wars or wars with gases and fire

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    Here are 30-40 word answers to the questions: Q.1. By being still for a while, man would benefit from an exotic moment of sudden strangeness without noise and rush of modern life. It would help him have some quiet introspection. Q.2. The poet refers to the fishermen and the man gathering salt to indicate that during the moment of stillness, even those engaged in tiring professions will forget their work/hardships and introspect. Q.3. The poet suggests that the war-mongers should put on clean clothes, walk with their brothers in shade and do nothing to bring an end to their cruel wars with no survivors like green wars or wars with gases and fire

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    Important Extracts:

    (i) Now we will count to twelve


    and we will all keep still.
    This one time upon the earth,
    let's not speak any language,
    let's stop for one second,
    and not move our arms so much

    Comprehension questions Answers


    1. Name the poem and the poet. 1. The poem is Keeping Quiet and the poet
    is Pablo Neruda
    2. What does the poet ask us to 2. The poet asks us to count to twelve and
    do? keep still.
    3. What should we not do on the 3. We should not speak in any language on
    earth for a second? the earth for a second.
    4. What is his real purpose in 4.His real purpose in saying all this is that
    saying all this? we should stop all our activities for a
    while and have a quiet introspection.

    (ii) it would be an exotic moment


    without rush, without engines,
    we would all be together
    in a sudden strangeness.

    Comprehension Questions Answers


    1. Who is the poet of these lines? 1. The poet of these lines is Pablo
    Neruda

    2. What kind of moment it will 2. When we will be silent and still, it


    be? would be an exotic moment.

    3. What all of us will feel at that 3. We feel and enjoy sudden strangeness
    moment? and unusual.

    4. Give the meaning of ‘exotic’. 4. Enticing

    (iii) Fishermen in the cold sea


    would do not harm to the whales
    and the man gathering salt
    would look at his hurt hands

    Comprehension Questions Answers


    1. What would the fishermen not 1. They would not harm whales.
    do?
    2. What would the man gathering 2. He would look at his hurt hands.
    salt do?
    3. Which professions are 3. One is ‘fishing’ and the other is ‘salt
    mentioned in these lines? gathering’.
    4. What transformation will come 4. They will come out of their greed,
    in the people the poet is talking of? selfishness and cruelty.

    (iv) Those who prepare green wars,


    wars with gas, wars with fire,
    victories with no survivors,
    would put on clean clothes
    and walk about with their brothers
    in the shade, doing nothing.

    Comprehension Questions Answers


    1. What are the different wars 1. The wars mentioned are green wars,
    mentioned in these lines? wars with gas and wars with fire.
    2. What do you think is meant by 2. Green wars (bio-chemical) mean new
    green wars? and fresh wars caused by men all over
    the world.
    3. What advice does the poet 3. He advises the war-mongers to stop
    impart on the war-mongers? wars and to put on clean clothes to be in
    the company of their brothers.

    (v) What I want shouldn't be confused


    with final inactivity:
    life alone is what matters,
    I want nothing to do with death.

    Comprehension Questions Answer


    1. Who does ‘I’ refer to? 1. I’ refers to the poet, Pablo Neruda.
    2. What is it that should not be 2. It is the moment of silence and
    confused with total inactivity? stillness. It should not be confused with
    total inactivity.
    3. With whom does the poet not 3. The poet does not want to have any
    want to deal with? dealing with death.
    4. Explain: ‘no truck with death’. 4.By keeping quiet the poet doesn’t want
    us to be like death, we are very much
    alive on that moment and Earth can
    prove we are not dead but alive.

    (v) Perhaps the earth is teaching us


    when everything seems to be dead
    and then everything is alive.
    Now I will count to twelve
    and you keep quiet and I'll go.
    Comprehension Questions Answers
    1. What can earth teach us? 1. The Earth can teach us how to live on
    it?
    2. When everything seems dead, 2. When everything seems to be dead,
    what remains alive? Earth remains alive.
    3. Why is the narrator willing to 3. The narrator is willing to count up to
    count up to twelve? twelve as he is preparing to go. He asks
    us to keep quiet.
    4. Trace the word that means 4. Living – alive.
    –‘living’.

    Practice Task

    Answer the following in 30-40 words:

    Q.1. How would man benefit by being still for a while?


    Q.2. Why does the poet refer to the fishermen and the man gathering salt?
    Q.3. How can war be brought to an end?

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