Class 12 English - Flamingo - Poetry - Chapter Keeping Quiet NCERT Solutions | What symbol from Nature does the poet in
What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?
The poet took the example of earth to show that there can be a life under apparent stillness. He says with change in seasons, it brings so many different things with it. As in winter the water bodies gets freeze, trees shed their leaves but as soon the spring season comes it brings some new life with it. It gives lives to new blossoms, and nature gets new lives. He says by keeping quiet and still it doesn’t mean that it is total inactive but it means by doing so a new life and phase will begin.
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