About The Poet: Before You Read
About The Poet: Before You Read
About The Poet: Before You Read
Keeping Quiet/95
2021-22
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their
brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
1. What will counting upto twelve and keeping still help us achieve?
2. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
3. What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?
4. What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there
can be life under apparent stillness?
96/Flamingo
2021-22
Choose a quiet corner and keep still physically and mentally
for about five minutes. Do you feel any change in your state of
mind?
Keeping Quiet/97
2021-22