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Read the extract 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 up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.(a) Name the poem and its poet.(b) What does the Earth teach us ?(c) What does the poet want to achieve by counting up to twelve ?(d) Give an example of what now seems to be dead but later on becomes alive. |
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Answer» (a) The poem is Keeping Quiet and the poet is Pablo Neruda. (b) 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. (c) The Poet wants to achieve peace by counting upto twelve. He wants us to introspect in a moment of silence. (d) Only the Earth is alive when everything else appears to be dead. |
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