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Keeping quiet is a poem written by Pablo Neruda in Spanish, which has been translated in English. In this poem, the Nobel Prize winner poet aims to appeal to the readers to take a little time out of their busy schedules and life for a little introspection and retrospection. The title, “Keeping Quiet”, is symbolic to stop all the activities, keeping quiet in the mind, not doing anything, but to question and understand the purpose of the world that humans have created around themselves. Do go through the Summary of Keeping Quiet.
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The poet asks everyone to count up to twelve in their mind. The number twelve represents the hours of the day or the months of a year.
He wants all of us to be calm and still.
People across the nations have to unite together, so, they shall not speak their own languages, rather they all shall keep quiet and speak the language of silence.
This will bring unity among all the humans on the face of the Earth.
For at least one moment, no one shall move his arms either to signal, or to fight, or argue with each other.
When everything will come to a standstill, it will be a rare situation.
No one will be in a rush, there will be no engines running.
Everyone will be calm and quiet, united with each other in a strange atmosphere.
It will be strange because it has never happened earlier.
No person would be harming any other living being either for food or to earn his livelihood.
All the people who work endlessly will get some time to look at their injuries and the damage they have caused to their body.
The people who exploit the green wealth of nature by deforestation, or mining, or fishing in the deep seas and the soldiers who use weapons to kill fellow human beings need some time to introspect into the consequences of their actions. They are merely doing their job or following orders.
He wants them to put on ‘new clothes’ i.e. to adopt a new approach towards life and to realize that killing so many people is not a victory.
He wants all of us to be united as one, consider our enemy to be our brother.
He is promoting brotherhood, peace and unity.
He does not want us to stop our works but to take some time and analyze the results of our deeds.
All human beings work endlessly with the aim of completing all their tasks.
They are driven by the target of survival and the threat of death.
So they are in a mad rush to accomplish all their works.
He says that perhaps, if they pause for a while, they can appreciate their achievements and their lives would become happier.
He suggests that by keeping quiet, we will be able to understand the true purpose of our life.
The poet suggests us to take a teaching from nature.
As the Earth undergoes changes, in winter, everything freezes, becomes lifeless but after some time, the season changes again, and everything comes back to life.
Similarly, taking a pause and introspecting into our lives will give it a new meaning. We will be able to understand the purpose of our life. It will be like a re birth of the soul.
The poet has conveyed to all the people the purpose of his message and so, he asks them once again to take a pause, count till twelve and walks out of the scene, keeping the scene open for all the people on the Earth to experience this for times to come.
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He wants all of us to be calm and still.
People across the nations have to unite together, so, they shall not speak their own languages, rather they all shall keep quiet and speak the language of silence.
This will bring unity among all the humans on the face of the Earth.
For at least one moment, no one shall move his arms either to signal, or to fight, or argue with each other.
When everything will come to a standstill, it will be a rare situation.
No one will be in a rush, there will be no engines running.
Everyone will be calm and quiet, united with each other in a strange atmosphere.
It will be strange because it has never happened earlier.
No person would be harming any other living being either for food or to earn his livelihood.
All the people who work endlessly will get some time to look at their injuries and the damage they have caused to their body.
The people who exploit the green wealth of nature by deforestation, or mining, or fishing in the deep seas and the soldiers who use weapons to kill fellow human beings need some time to introspect into the consequences of their actions. They are merely doing their job or following orders.
He wants them to put on ‘new clothes’ i.e. to adopt a new approach towards life and to realize that killing so many people is not a victory.
He wants all of us to be united as one, consider our enemy to be our brother.
He is promoting brotherhood, peace and unity.
He does not want us to stop our works but to take some time and analyze the results of our deeds.
All human beings work endlessly with the aim of completing all their tasks.
They are driven by the target of survival and the threat of death.
So they are in a mad rush to accomplish all their works.
He says that perhaps, if they pause for a while, they can appreciate their achievements and their lives would become happier.
He suggests that by keeping quiet, we will be able to understand the true purpose of our life.
The poet suggests us to take a teaching from nature.
As the Earth undergoes changes, in winter, everything freezes, becomes lifeless but after some time, the season changes again, and everything comes back to life.
Similarly, taking a pause and introspecting into our lives will give it a new meaning. We will be able to understand the purpose of our life. It will be like a re birth of the soul.
The poet has conveyed to all the people the purpose of his message and so, he asks them once again to take a pause, count till twelve and walks out of the scene, keeping the scene open for all the people on the Earth to experience this for times to come.
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