Question

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

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.

(a) What lesson can the earth teach us?

Answer 1

Step 1: Answer:
In Pablo Neruda's ‘Keeping Quiet’, the earth teaches us the lesson of stillness and renewal — that periods of apparent inactivity (like winter, when everything looks dead) are not the end but a necessary pause before life revives; similarly, human beings should pause from ceaseless activity to reflect and be renewed, rather than mistaking stillness for death or failure.