LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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No movement
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Stillness and silence
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A statue
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Talking people
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answers. We should not confuse total inactivity with stillness and silence. Total inactivity brings death while stillness entails rest for a moment so that we can have calm introspection.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answers: ()The poet is advocating for silence or stillness. Stillness should not be confused with total inactivity.
Detailed explanation-3: -(i) This extract is taken from the poem ‘keeping Quiet’ written by ‘Pablo Neruda’. (ii) This poem emphasizes on the importance of being calm and keeping quiet. The poet feels that all our problems exist because of the rush in our life. But his view shouldn’t be confused with total inactivity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Here the poet means that he has nothing to do with death. (d) ‘It’ here refers to inactivity that the poet is talking about. It is all about life because it is meant to make our life better. It is not about death.
Detailed explanation-5: -The sadness that the poet refers to in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ is the sadness of never understanding oneself and nature. Human beings in a frenzy of activities, have no time for introspection and thus threaten themselves with death or destruction.