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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? |
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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 thissilence. It helps usin analysing ourselves and our actions, interrupting the sadness of threatening ourselves with death. |
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