Question

class 12 english keeping quit theme​

Answer 1

Answer:

Keeping Quiet’ leaves a message of universal brotherhood and peace. It urges the readers to stop all sorts of aggression, including those towards the environment. If we think of ourselves as the hands of the clock on the face of this earth, moving in our routine ways, won’t it be a good thing to stop at twelve and do some introspection? Surprisingly, the differences of the three hands will fade away and I, you, and nature will become one.

The poet compares the single-minded pursuit of human beings to the routine movements of the hands of a clock. Double meanings and paradoxes abound in the poem. The face of the earth becomes the face of the clock. ‘Not move our arms so much’ refers at the same time to human arms, the hands of a clock, and to weapons. ‘Green wars’ denote new wars and biological weapons. ‘Shade’ may refer to peace and ‘underprivileged or black’. ‘I will go’ at the end of the poem also refers to ‘I’, the ego, that will vanish at the moment of true awareness.