Read the following extract and answer: "Perhaps the Earth can teach us / as when everything seems dead / and later proves to be alive. / Now I'll count up to twelve / and you keep quiet and I will go." — (c) Name the poet and the poem from which this extract has been taken.

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Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two, (a) or (b) :

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.

(Keeping Quiet)

Answer 1

Recalling the Text:
This is one of the prescribed poems in the Flamingo textbook.

Final Answer:
The extract is from 'Keeping Quiet' by Pablo Neruda.

Read the following extract and answer: "Perhaps the Earth can teach us / as when everything seems dead / and later proves to be alive. / Now I'll count up to twelve / and you keep quiet and I will go." — (c) Name the poet and the poem from which this extract has been taken.

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