Section - C (Literature: Textbooks and Long Reading Text)
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) What is man single-minded about?
(b) Explain. 'sadness of never understanding ourselves'.
(c) How has mankind threatened itself with death?
(d) Do you think the poet, Pablo Neruda advocates total inactivity and denth? Why Why
Answers
Answer:
HEY MATE
UR ANSWER IS
A. THE MAN IS SINGLE MINDED FOR KEEPING HIS LIFE MOVING.
B. IT MEANS WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND OUR SADNESS AND WE ONLY WORK ON KEEPING EVERYONE HAPPY.
C. MANKIND THREATENS HIMSELF TO DEATH BY NOT UNDERSTANDING HIS SADNESS
D. SORRY I DON'T KNOW THIS ONE :'(
(a)Here the men are referred as single minded because they always think about their own progress and advancement.
(b)It refers to that if they pause for a while, they can appreciate their achievements and their lives would become happier. But they never pause their lives and try never to understand themselves.
(c) Poet here suggests that by keeping quiet, they will be able to understand the true purpose of their life. 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 and hence the mankind has threatened itself with death ☠...
(d) No, the poet clearly states that his asking for stillness should not be confused with total inactivity or death. He perceives life to be a continuous process, where man’s activities should not lead to destruction of fellow human beings or nature, but should be channelised in a resourceful way.
Hope it will help you......