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Values to Understand
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Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0oYJWGrXk&t=1792s

In the poem, the poet, Pablo Neruda, urges mankind to cease all activities for a little small
time. During this, all human beings would be one, united, and in harmony with each other
and nature. Introspection for a short time will bring all the problems to an end for which
absolute silence and stillness is essential.

About the Author

Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0oYJWGrXk&t=1792s

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) is the pen name of Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto who was born
in the town of Parral in Chile. Neruda’s poems are full of easily understood images which
make them no less beautiful. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1971. In this
poem Neruda talks about the necessity of quiet introspection and creating a feeling of
mutual understanding among human beings

Complete Poem Line by Line Analysis (Watch video for Explanation)

Link for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0oYJWGrXk&t=1792s

Questions as per MCQS (Watch video for Solutions)

Link for Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkEwQnVfYQ&t=2330s

1. The last line of the poem is…….

2. Man needs to learn a lesson from whom?
3. Poet says that wars that are fought have no……..
4. The poet wants the entire mankind to……..
5. What does the man threaten himself with?
6. The types of wars the poet is talking about are….
7. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm what?
8. The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet till when?
9. What can human beings learn from nature?
10. Which symbol from nature the poet uses to prove
that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
11. Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
12. What does number 12 signify?
13. Which rhyming scheme is used in the poem?
14. According to the poet what creates barriers?
15. What is the message of the poem?
16. What is poet’s pen name?
17. What is poet’s real name?
18. Which is the original language of the poem?
19. “Earth can teach us” Mention the figure of speech.
20. ‘Hurt Hands’ Mention the figure of speech.
21. What is transferred Epithet?
22. Which prize had the poet won and when?
23. Where was the poet born?
24. What does the image show?
25. What does the image show?

Figure of Speech Used

Link for Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkEwQnVfYQ&t=2330s

❑ ‘Count to twelve’ – symbolizes a period of time. The clock has twelve markings on it,
the year has twelve months and the day has twelve hours.

❑ Let’s- repetition to create a bond with the reader and stress his point.

❑ ‘Fishermen in the cold sea…hurt hands’-symbolic image showing how man is

ruthlessly destroying nature and harming other species in cold blood for his selfish
need and greed.

❑ The ‘hurt hands’ – the sore hands of the salt gatherer would make him realize how he
is harming himself by his mindless activities.

❑ …put on clean clothes’- metaphor. The poet says that quiet introspection will make
us comprehend the destructive nature of wars. Man would shed his blood soiled
clothes and don on clean clothes

❑ Brothers -symbol of mankind

❑ n the shade- metaphor- just as shade protects us from the harsh rays of the sun, we
will protect and shelter each other as brothers

❑ Earth can teach us as when everything… symbol, Just as earth, the greatest creator,
in its sleeping mode appears to be dead on surface but is actually dormant and
carefully preserving the seeds of life, human beings too need to keep still and quiet
to give birth and awaken the life forces within and be productive.

❑ Pun

❑ Alliteration