The poet wants to stay still tell he will count:

• upto ten

• upto eleven

• upto twelve

• upto twenty

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
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

1. How long does the poet want to stay still?
2. What does he hope to achieve by keeping quiet?
3. What does the poet mean by ‘not move our arms so much’?

The poet wants to stay still tell he will count:

The poet’s advice for us is not to speak:

‘Not move our arms so much’ refers to:

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

1. What kind of moment it will be?
2. How would we all be together?
3. What will happen if there is neither rush nor the running of the engines?
4. What all of us will feel at that moment?

When we will be silent and still, it would be

When there is neither rush nor the working of engines and machines, there will be:

At the moment of stillness, all will feel:

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands.
1. What does the fisherman do in the cold sea?
2. How would the whales not be harmed?
3. How are the hands of the man hurt?
4. Which professions are mentioned in these lines?
5. Find a word from the passage that means ‘collecting’.