Keeping Quiet ! (Main Points of the poem) Important questions and answers for board Exams

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Keeping Quiet

(Main Points of the poem) Important questions and answers for board Exams

                                          Part (I)

                                      Main points of the poem

1.  The poet asks us to count to twelve and not to make any movement during this time. He asks us to stop for a second and not to move our arms even.

       कवि  हमें बारह तक गिनने तथा इस समय के दौरान कोई गति न करने को कहता है ! वह हमें एक सेकेण्ड के लिए रुकने और अपनी बाहों तक को न हिलाने को कहता है !

2.  He says that by doing this, we shall experience a very unusual feeling. We shall feel no hungry or worry. There shall be complete silence. We shall suddenly feel a strange togetherness with all others.

     वह कहता है की ऐसा करने से हम एक बहित अधभुद सी भावना का अनुभव करेंगे ! हमें कोई भाग दौड़ या चिंता महसूस नहीं होगी ! वह पूर्ण शांति होगी ! हमें अन्य लोगो के साथ एक अजीब सी एकता महसूस होगी !

3.  This quiet introspection will lead everyone to come out of their greed, selfishness and cruelty .Warmongers will give up their lust for war and start living like brothers.

     इस तरह का शांत अन्तनिरिक्षण प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को उसके लालच , स्वार्थ और निर्दयता से से बहार ले आएगा ! युद्ध की लालसा रखने वाले लोग अपनी इस लालसा का त्याग कर देंगे तथा भाइयो की भांति रहना शुरू कर देंगे !

4.  The poet says that this advocacy of silence and stillness should not be confused with total inactivity in facts, what he says is connected with life, not with death .And the very essence of life is activity.

     कवी कहता है की शांति  ख़ामोशी  पक्ष में उसके  तर्क का  अर्थ सम्पूर्ण निष्क्रियता  नहीं लेना चाहिए ! वास्तव में जो बात वह कहता है उसका सम्बन्ध जीवन से है , न की मृत्यु से ! तथा जीवन का सार ही क्रिया से होता है !

5.   The poet says that this little stillness and silence leads us to better and fresh course of future activity. Without it be shall never be able to understand ourselves and then we shall be as good as death.

     कवि कहता है की छोटी सी शान्ति और ख़ामोशी  हमें अगली क्रिया करने के एक नए और बेहतर रास्ते पर ले जाती है ! इसके बिना हम कभी स्वयं को समझ नहीं पाएंगे और फिर हम एक मृत के सामान ही बन जाएंगगे !

6.   The poet gives an example to show how a little stillness and silence can leads to a new and better life. He gives the example of the earth itself.

      कवि यह दिखने के लिए एक बेहतर उदाहरण देता है की  थोड़ी सी न स्थिरता  और खामोशी  किस तरह हमें एक नए और बेहतर जीवन की तरफ ले जा सकती है ! वह स्वयं धरती का ही उदाहरण देती है

7.   When it is winter, the earth is so still and silent that it seems to be death. But later in spring, it is proved that is a live, no that. It has new beauties and colors added to it. Similarly after a little stillness and silence of introspection, man can resume his activity in fresh and better manners.

       जब शीत ऋतू होती है तो धरती इतनी शांत और स्थिर हो जाती है  की यह मृत प्रतीत होती है ! किन्तु बाद में बसंत ऋतू के आने पर यह सिद्ध हो जाता है की यह जीवित है , न की मृत ! इसमें नई सुंदरताएँ और नए रंग भर आते है ! उसी प्रकार थोड़ी सी निश्चलता और ख़ामोशी के बाद मनुष्य अपनी क्रियाओ को एक नए और बेहतर ढंग से दुबारा शरू कर सकता है

                                      Part (II)

Important Question and Answers of this chapter for board exams.

Q1. What will count up to twelve and keeping still help us to achieve?

Ans. What the poet means to say is that we should stop all our actives for a few moments and do quiet introspection. It will help us to start our activities a fresh in a better and purposeful manner.

Q2. Do you think the poet an advocates inactivity and death?

Ans. No, the poet doesn’t say this at all .Whatever he says in connected with life and actives that can be made better. He only says that we should stop our actives for a few moments and have quiet introspection .It will help us to restart our actives in a better purposeful manner.

Q3.  What is the ‘Sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?

Ans. It is the  ‘sadness’ of never understanding  ourselves .Those how remain all the time busy in worldly actives  can never understand themselves. We can understand ourselves only if we stop all our activates for a few moments and do some quiet introspection.

Q4. What symbol from nature does the poet involve to say that three can be life under apparent stillness?

Ans. The poet uses the symbol of the earth. He says that in winter, the earth to be dead .But later in spring, it is proved that it is alive, not dead .It has new colours and beauties added to it .Thus the poet proves that there can be life under apparent stillness.

Q5. What ideas does Pablo Neruda want to covey in his poem, ‘Keeping Quit’?

Ans.  The poet wants to say that we should stop our worldly activities for a few moments and do some quiet introspection.It will help us to understand ourselves .Then we can start our activities a fresh in a better and purposeful manner.

Q6.  What is ‘an exotic moment’ the poet Pablo Neruda wishes for?

                                                         OR
           Which is the exotic moment that the poet refers to in ‘Keeping Quiet’?

Ans. The poet calls the moment of quiet introspection ‘an exotic moment’. He calls it exotic because it will give us a very unusual feeling .We shall feel ourselves as one with all others. We will come out of all our greed, selfishness and cruelly.

Q7. What are different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem? What is Neruda’s attitude towards these wars?

Ans . The wars mentioned in the poem are ‘Green wars’ i.e. fresh and new wars. The poet says that there are some people who enjoy making such wars. The want to win victories even I there are no survivors after the victory. The poet says that if the people take out some time for quite introspection, they will stop making new wars. They will then look upon all others not as their enemies, but as their brothers.

Q8.   Which is the exotic moment that the poet refers to in ‘Keeping Quiet’?
Ans. The poet refers to the moment of stillness and quietness as an exotic moment. It would be an exotic moment, as such a tranquillity will initiate peace and brotherhood. There would be no movement, no talk, no activity and consequently, no violence.

Q9.   What is the sadness that the poet refers to in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?
                                                                  or
       What is the sadness that the poet refers to in the poem?
Ans.  The poet refers to the sadness which surrounds man due to not having any time for himself, the pain of not understanding what he or his fellow human beings want. He has no time for introspection; as a result, he is unable to analyze his own actions and understand its consequences.

Q10.  Which images in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ show that the poet condemns violence?
Ans.  The images of fishermen not harming the whales in the sea and wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate the victory show that the poet condemns violence. The poet wants the warmongers to change their blood-stained clothes to clean ones. The poet’s refusal to have any association or dealing with death also shows that he is not in favor of any form of violence.

                               **  Texting questions  **

Question.1  Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                     “If we were not so single-minded
                                      about keeping our lives moving,
                                      and for once could do nothing,
                                      perhaps a huge silence
                                      might interrupt this sadness
                                     of never understanding ourselves
                                     and of threatening ourselves with death
(a) Whom does ‘we’ refer to in the above lines?
(b) Why does the poet want us to ‘do nothing’ for once?
(c) What is the‘sadness’that the poet refers to in the poem?
(d) How can a huge silence do good to us?
Answer.
(a) ‘We’ refers to the human beings, who are always thinking about their own progress and advancement.
(b) The poet wants us to ‘do nothing’ for once so that our mind can be at peace and we are able to introspect and analyse our own actions.
(c) The poet refers to the ‘sadness’ which arises due to the fact that people fail to understand themselves. They have no time to introspect about their actions and their consequences.
(d) A huge silence can do good to us because we are able to achieve peace in this silence. It helps us in analysing ourselves and our actions, interrupting the sadness of threatening ourselves with death.

Question.2   Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                      Perhaps the Earth can teach us
                                      as when everything seems dead
                                     and later proves to be alive
                                     Now I’ll count upto twelve
                                     and you keep quiet and I will go.
(a) What does the Earth teach us?
(b) What does the poet mean to achieve by counting up to twelve?
(c) What is the significance of ’keeping quiet’?
(d) What is always alive, even when everything seems to be dead?
                                          or
(a) What does the Earth teach us?
(b) Why does the poet count upto twelve?
(c) What will keeping quiet help us achieve?
(d) How does the Earth teach us that there is activity even in apparent stillness? Answer. 

(a) The Earth teaches us how new life springs from dead remains, and how there is life under apparent stillness.
(b) The poet wants to achieve peace by counting up to twelve. He wants us to introspect in a moment of silence.
(c) Keeping quiet doesn’t mean just not speaking. It means that we should avoid all activities which hurt nature and, in turn, hurt us.
(d) The Earth is always alive, even when everything else seems to be dead. There is always some activity going on in nature beneath its apparent stillness.
                                      or
Answer.
(a) The Earth teaches us how new life springs from dead remains. It gives us lessons about sustaining and resurrecting life.
(b) The poet is initiating an exercise in meditation. When he counts up to twelve, the mediator puts away all digressions and experiences bliss. He wants all mediators to experience that bliss.
(c) Keeping quiet will help us introspect, reflect and experience silence and peace. This will in turn help us find solutions to our problems.
(d) Though the Earth appears still, there are so many changes that keep occurring beneath its surface. A seed that seems dead germinates under the Earth and a new life springs from it.

Question.3   Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                     For once on the face of the Earth
                                     let’s not speak in any language,
                                     let’s stop for one second,
                                    arid not move our arms so much.
(a) Why does the poet want us to keep quiet?
(b) What does he want us to do for one second?
(c) What does he mean by “not move our arms”?
(d) How can this moment of stillness help us?
Answer.
(a) The poet wants us to keep quiet in the hope that the moment of tranquility might help us in finding the answers to our problems.
(b) The poet wants us to be silent and motionless for one second.
(c) The poet means that we should be in a state of total stillness with no physical activity at all.
(d) This moment of stillness can provide us physical and mental rest, during which our mind will be at peace. We can analyze our actions and their consequences and avoid rash or thoughtless behavior.

Question.4   Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                           It would be an exotic moment
                                           without rush, without engines,
                                           we would all be together
                                           in a sudden strangeness.
(a) What will happen if there is no rush or running of engines?
(b) Why would it be called an exotic moment?
(c) How would we feel at tilt moment?
(d) Name the poem and the poet.
Answer.
(a) It will be an ecstatic moment of tranquility without rush or running of engines.
(b) It would be called an exotic moment because it will be an instance of universal peace and brotherhood. In that moment, all of us would initiate introspection through meditation and the whole world will be enveloped in quietness.
(c) We would feel very strange at that moment, because at that time everyone will have a feeling of oneness with their fellow human beings. It will be a new feeling altogether.
(d) The poem is ‘Keeping Quiet’, and the poet is Pablo Neruda.

Question.5  Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                          Now we will count to twelve,
                                          and we will all keep still.
                                          For once on the face of the Earth,
                                          let’s not speak in any language,
                                          let’s stop for one second,
                                          and not move our arms so much.
(a) How long does the poet want to stay still?
(b) What does he hope to achieve by keeping quiet?
(c) What does the poet mean by “not move our arms so much”?
(d) Why does the poet suggest us not to speak in any  language?
Answer.
(a) The poet exhorts each one of us to count to twelve and then be quiet, silent and motionless for a brief moment.
(b) He hopes to achieve and realize the value of quiet introspection. In this silence, we shall feel that all are together and will experience a strange feeling of togetherness.
(c) By this, he means that we should not make any physical movement, as physical activity will stop  interrupt our introspection.
(d) The poet wants us to simply be silent for a moment and utilize that time to understand ourselves as well as others. Besides, language differences often lead to conflict, which the poet, perhaps, wants to avoid.

Question.6  Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
                                          Fishermen .the cold sea
                                          would not harm whales
                                         and the man gathering salt
                                         would look at his hurt hands.
(a) What does the poet expect of the fishermen and why?
(b) While gathering salt, what will the man do?
(c) What do the hurt hands imply?
(d) How would man and nature benefit in this moment of silence?
Answer.
(a) In the exotic moment of silence and introspection, fishermen will become conscious the fact that they are causing harm to the whales. The poet expects this because he feels that at this opportune moment all evil will come to an end.
(b) The man gathering salt will stop for a while at that quiet moment and look at his hurt
hands.
(c) ‘Hurt hands’ means that human beings are oblivious of the pain they are causing to themselves in the pursuit of amassing more and more comforts. They have no time for themselves.
(d) In this moment of silence, man will not harm nature, and both human beings and nature will get some time to attend to and recover from their wounds.

Question.7  Read the extract given below and answer the Questions that follow.

                                        What I want should not be

                                         Confused with total inactivity.

                                          Life is what it is about ;

                                          I want no truck with death.

(a)  What does the poet want ?

(b)  What does he want us not to confuse it with?

(c)  What, according to him, does inactivity amount to?

(d)  What does he think about life?

Answer.

 (a) He wants all of us to find a moment  for  quiet introspection.

(b)  He does not want us to confused it with total inactivity.

(c)  According to him, inactivity amount to death.

(d)  He thinks of life as something connected with activity.

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