DEEP GROUP TUITIONS

SUB : English
POEM: 3 KEEPING QUIET
STD : 12th(GSEB) MARKS :20
A.Answer the following questions (2*4 = 8 Marks)
1. What does the poet ask the fisherman and the man collecting salt to do? What
does he exactly want to convey by this?
2. How does the poet distinguish ‘stillness’ from ‘total inactivity’? Why does
Neruda say ‘I want no truck with death’?
3. Under the apparent stillness there is life. Justify the statement giving an example
from the poem ‘keeping quiet’.
4. Pablo Neruda says:
“We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.’’
When can we experience such a moment? Why will that be an exotic moment?
B.Poem Comprehension (1*4 = 4 Marks)
Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example.
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal –
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night?
QUESTIONS
a) Who are ‘them’ referred to in the first line?
b) What tempts them?
c) What does the poet say about ‘their’ lives?
d) Explain: ‘From fog to endless night’.
C.Indirect Speech (2*2 = 4 marks)
a) Mukesh says, ‘I want to be a motor mechanic’. I ask “Do you also dream of
flying a plane?” He is suddenly silent.
b) Saheb admits, “I go inside when no one is around and the gatekeeper lets me use
the swing.”
D.Identify the figure of speech (1*4 = 4 Marks)
1. What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.
2. Perhaps the Earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves
to be alive.
3. The tall girl with her weighed-down head
4. And let their tongue run naked into books the white and green leaves open
history their whose language is the sun.