Keeping Quiet

The poetic device used in the last line ‘when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive’ is

• imagery

• irony

• paradox

• transferred epithet

The poet evokes a symbol in order to invoke that there can be life even with stillness. The symbol is

• earth

• rain

• storm

• cloud

What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?

• speaking practice

• wise words

• polished language

• Practice of silence

What does the earth symbolise?

• perseverance and new beginning from seemingly stillness

• stillness

• greenery

• prosperity

How does the poet perceive life?

• as stillness

• as silence

• a noisy place

• a continuous evolution of nature

In the end, he again appeals to the people that he would

• initiate the state of inactivity

• will not bother at all

• completely ignore everyone

• estroy the eart

How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?

• it helps to think and search soul

• helps to scratch one’s soul

• helps to develop new thinking process

• all these

What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

• to find more fish

• to go deeper into the sea

• to think and stop harming the fish

• none of these

What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?

• War against humanity

• War against nature

• War with gases and fire

• All these

The men in clean clothes would be walking with their

• wives

• brothers

• nephews

• friends