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

• a single word

• a single sentence

• a single syllable

• in any language

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’.

The fisherman goes for fishing in:

 The whales would not be harmed when:

The skin is injured by:

The professions mentioned in the above lines are: