Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much
1. How long does the poet want to stay still?
2. What does he hope to achieve by keeping quiet?
3. What does the poet mean by ‘not move our arms so much’?
1. The poet wants to stay still till he will count upto twelve “respite and peace”.
2. He hopes to achieve by keeping quiet because we always remain in rash and hurry. These bring ills and trouble in the world.
3. Here the poet means that we should cease all activities. Man has used his arms to kill and destroy the other. So we should not let arms move to harm others.
We shall be threatening ourselves with death:
if we indulge in wars
if we spread baseless rumours
if we grab others’s properties
if we grab others’s properties
D.
if we grab others’s properties
The poet’s counting upto twelve with help us:
in keeping quiet
in retrospection
in getting together
in getting together
D.
in getting together
The earth can teach us:
how to grow
how to survive
how to live on it by doing some activity
how to live on it by doing some activity
C.
how to live on it by doing some activity