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.

(b) How does the poet interpret the inaction and action on the Earth?

Answer 1

Step 1: Answer:
The poet interprets the earth's cycles of apparent inaction (dormant winter) and action (spring's renewal) as a natural, necessary rhythm — not opposites in conflict, but complementary phases. He suggests humans, too, need such quiet interludes between periods of action, since a moment of stillness allows for introspection without truly halting life.