write down the critical appreciation of the poem? keeping quiet
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The poem is a very simple, and is written in a free verse. The poet has paused on the points where he wants the reader to ponder on, and understand the meaning. There are no rhyming words, or sentences, that are seen in almost all the poems of Neruda, including this one. The themes that are present in the poem are about introspect, retrospect, and brotherhood among the people of the world. The significance of counting till twelve could be that it divides a day in two parts of twelve hours each. Another interesting fact about the poem is that even the title has twelve letters in it.
The values that are seen in the poem are about introspection, where everyone stops and thinks about the purpose of their actions, and how it is benefitting them in the end, retrospection, where we have o look back at our own actions in the history, where we have created wars, and have taken many lives, brotherhood, where the differences due to boundaries of cultures and countries are neglected, and we leave together in peace and harmony.
Neruda asks everyone to count till twelve and then keep still. In these twelve seconds, he wants everyone to calm down, relax, and get ready to begin introspection and retrospection. He wants that people speak no languages at all for few minutes and just think. By this action, he wants people to slow down and not think of their busy schedule and lives for sometime, and think about the things that happens and had happened across them, and the purpose of all of them. He says that these moments of silence would be “exotic” and exciting, where people let their thoughts run about the purpose of the lives they are leading in the world.
He tries to bring about violence, which is not only against humans, by also the violence that it has posed towards nature. By this, he tries to put light on the selfish motif of human beings of their survival, and exploit everything for that. The third paragraph about fishermen killing whales in the cold sea is a dual metaphor here, where the poet tries to point towards the cruel nature towards other species, and the wide class division of the society. In the third paragraph, the poet tries to say that the fishermen are the oppressors of the society, and the men gathering salt are the oppressed ones. He appeals to the oppressor to forget about hunting or suppressing the weak for their benefit, and the men gathering salt to forget their struggle and pain, and think about each other as brothers.