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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow. Perhaps the Earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive Now I’ll count upto twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.(a) What does the Earth teach us? (b) What does the poet mean to achieve by counting upto twelve? (c) What is the significance of ’keeping quiet’? (d) What is always alive, even when everything seems to be dead? OR(a) What does the Earth teach us? (b) Why does the poet countupto twelve? (c) What will keeping quiet help us achieve? (d) How does the Earth teach us that there is activity even in apparent stillness? |
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Answer» (a) The Earth teaches us how new life springs from dead remains, and how there is life under apparent stillness. (b) The poet wants to achieve peace by counting upto twelve. He wants us to introspect in a moment of silence. (c) Keeping quiet doesn’t mean just not speaking. It means that we should avoid all activities which hurt nature and, in turn, hurt us. (d) The Earth is always alive, even when everything else seems to be dead. There is always some activity going on in nature beneath its apparent stillness. OR (a) The Earth teaches us how new life springs from dead remains. It gives us lessons about sustaining and resurrecting life. (b) The poet is initiating an exercise in meditation. When he counts upto twelve, the meditator puts away all digressions and experiences bliss. He wants all meditators to experience that bliss. (c) Keeping quiet will help us introspect, reflect and experience silence and peace. This will in turn help us find solutions to our problems. (d) Though the Earth appears still, there are so many changes that keep occurring beneath its surface. A seed that seems dead germinates under the Earth and a new life springs from it. |
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