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KEEPING QUIET

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  • How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
    by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
  • What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?
    Soul searching
  • What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with?
    desire and hope
  • What does the poem speak about?
    the necessity to introspect , understand and have feelings of brotherhood
  • What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?
    Free verse
  • What does number 12 represent?
    hours of the day and months of a year
  • What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
    violence because of unthoughtfulness of the people
  • What is the original language of the poem ?
    spanish
  • What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?
    Practice of silence
  • What does the title of the poem suggest?
    Maintenance of silence
  • Why does the poet ask people not to speak?
    because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding amongst people
  • What is poet's pen name?
    Pablo Neruda
  • According to the poet what creates barriers?
    languages
  • What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?
    To be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood
  • What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
    Stillness and silence
  • Not move our arms' what does this expression refer to?
    sitting still without any movement