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Flamingo - Keeping Quiet (Poetry) Multiple Choice Type Questions
Flamingo - Keeping Quiet (Poetry) Multiple Choice Type Questions
2. “For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our
arms so much.
a. In which language does the poet suggest to speak?
b. What does the poet mean by ‘stop for a second’?
c. What is the pun in the word ‘arms’? Explain.
d. How will “speaking in no language and not moving our arms so much” help humanity?
3. “Fishermen in the cold sea, would not harm whales, And the men gathering salt, would look at his hurt hands”
a) Who would get time to look at their hurt hands?
b) Which poetic device has the poet used in “his hurt hands”?
c) What does the poet mean by saying “fishermen would not harm whales?”
d) Suggest any one measure that you could take as a student to save environment.
4. “Perhaps a huge silence, might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening
ourselves with death”
a) According to the poet, what will help us to interrupt our sadness?
b) What is the sadness that the poet refers to?
c) How can we understand ourselves?
d) Mention any one place where silence helps people to function smoothly.
5 “Perhaps the Earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive……”
a) Which symbol of nature does the poet refer to here?
b) Name the poem and the poet.
c) Explain: “seems dead and later proves to be alive”.
d) According to the poet, Earth symbolizes apparent stillness with potential life. Give any one similar example.