Being quiet will help us:

• in realising the exotic moment

• in assessing our follies

• in doing retrospection

• in doing retrospection

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’?

The poet’s counting upto twelve with help us:

• in keeping quiet

• in retrospection

• in getting together

• in getting together

 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

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