Question

Those who prepare green wars,
Wars with gas, wars with fire,
Victory with no survivors
Would put on clean clothes
And walk about with their brothers
In the shade, doing nothing.
1. What are the kinds of wars mentioned in the above lines?
2. What are green wars?
3. How would the wars affect our lives?
4. What could be the ideal situation?
What I want would not be
Confused with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
1. What does the poet mean by inactivity?
2. How is inactivity different from death?
3. What makes us sad and what are we single-minded about?
4. What does the poet mean by ‘to have no truck with death’?



1. What can the Earth teach us?
2. What is the exotic moment?
3. Why does the poet want us to keep quiet?
4. Explain the line “let’s not speak in any language”.
5. Explain: “Without rush, without engines”.
6. How does the Earth ‘prove to be alive’?
7. Why does he advocate silence?
8. What can be the consequence of the war in our lives?
9. According to the poet, what lesson can human beings learn from Nature?
10. Analyse the importance of the dramatic count to twelve in “Keeping Quiet”.

Answer 1

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How is inactivity different from death?is the answer