Keeping Quite Solution Of NCERT Text Book Class 12

  KEEPING QUITE 

- Pablo Neruda

Exercise -

1) What will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us ?

Answer ) The poet urges us counting upto twelve and keeping still. Perhaps twelve here represents the twelve hour-marks on the clock. Most of the ills and troubles of the world are caused because of our rush and hurry. Keeping still well give us peace and refreshment.

2) Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death ?

Answer ) No he doesn't. He makes it very clear that 'stillness' should not be confused and equated with total inactivity. Total inactivity brings death. His stillness means not doing harmful activities.

3) What is sadness that poet refers to in the poem ?

Answer ) Man's sadness is formed out of his own thinking and actions. He understand so much but failed to understand himself and his actions. His rush and hurry causes troubles. Man is the author of all disasters.

4) What symbol from the nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness ?

Answer ) There can be life under apparent stillness. The poet invokes the earth as a living symbol to prove his point. Whenever everything seems dead it later proves to be alive. The earth never attains total inactivity. Nature remains at work even under apparent stillness and it keeps the earth alive.