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Keeping Quiet

Question
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Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Those who prepare green
wars, wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

1. In which wars are there no survivors?
2. Who would put on clean clothes?
3. What does ‘put on clean clothes’ signify?
4. How can brotherhood be established in the world?




Solution

1. There are no survivors in the wars of poisonous gases and the war of firearms.
2. The war-wagers would put on clean clothes.
3. ‘Put on clean clothes’ signifies the feelings of their mutual understanding.
4. Brotherhood can be established in the world only if the war-wagers come together and go out for a walk together.