NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poetry Chapter 3- Keeping Quiet

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Text Book Questions :-

Think :

What will counting up till twelve and keeping still help us to achieve?
Ans. Counting up to twelve would help us to put a brake on the rush and humdrum of life. It would help us to introspect and experience, silence and peace. In that moment of silence, we could find a solution to all our problems and predicaments.
Do you think that the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
Ans. The poet did not advocate total inactivity and death. In fact, he wanted to live life fully and boldly. But by
advocating quietness, he wanted a mixture of the physical and spiritual aspect of life.
What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?
Ans. The tragedy of man was that his sadness was formed out of his own thinking and activities. He understood so much of the outer world that he was unable to understand his own actions. Man was the author of all disasters. His actions and thinking alone were responsible for the disaster.
What symbol from the nature does the poet invoke to say that there is life under the apparent stillness?
Ans. The poet did not want to equate stillness with total inactivity. Under the apparent stillness, there was life. We could learn it from the earth as when everything seems dead, the earth still remains alive. The life on earth goes on under the apparent stillness.