KENDRIYA

VIDYALAYA NO 2,
DELHI CANTT
SESSION: 2022-23

ENGLISH PROJECT
TOPIC: KAMLA DAS AND HER WORK
IN LITRATURE
SUBMITTED BY: SAHIL BIJARNIA
CLASS: 12TH ‘B’ ROLL NO:
SUBMITTED TO: MRS. GARIMA MEHTA
SIGNATURE OF SUBJECT TEACHER SIGNATURE OF
EXTERNAL TEACHER

(MRS GARIMA MEHTA) This is hereby to

certify that “Sahil Bijarnia” of
class XII ‘B’ of K.V NO.2 DELHI
CANTT-10, has
completed his project file on the
topic “KAMLA
DAS AND HER WORK IN
LITERATURE” under
the guidance of MRS GARIMA
MEHTA. He has
taken proper care and shown
utmost sincerity in
completing this project. I certify
that this project
is up to my expectation and as
per the guidelines
issued by CBSE.
SIGNATURE OF SUBJECT TEACHER
(MRS. GARIMA MEHTA)
SIGNATURE OF PRINCIPAL SIGNATURE OF EXTERNAL

EXAMINERI would like to express my

profound and appreciation to
those who helped me with this
project, for their time
INDEX
 ABOUT THE POET
 KEEPING QUIET(5)
 ANALYSIS BY LINE
 CONCLUSIONABOUT THE POET
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Name – Pen Name – Pablo Neruda
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Real Name – Neftali Rieardo Reyues Basolto
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Born July 12,1904
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Notable works –
a) A song of despair (2003)
b) Crepus culario (Book of twilights)(1923)
c) Nuevo canto de amor a stalin grads” (1943)
d) Aqrdiente Paciencia (ardent patience) 1985KEEPING QUJIET
A piece of introspection and retrospection
with a sole message to keep ourselves quiet for a moment Pablo
Neruda hints at a state of
equilibrium where without any movement without any activity we
shall get a chance to
introspect within ourselves about our views, and activities whether
we are right or wrong, true
or false. The poet here hints at to introspect to work for unity,
peace, and universal brother
hood. He even asks us to retrospect i.e. to look back at our past
events and thus evaluate for
good. We only get a opportunity to introspect or retrospect when
we find ourselves in the state
of being quiet.KEEPING QUIET
A message for unity, peace, universal brotherhood
The poet has solicited here that we must cease all our activities and
be quiet for a moment
and come under one umbrella of silence breaking the differences we
possess.He gives us a call
to break the barriers of enmity, every creed, caste, religion and
country and get united to
introspect ourselves and despise all negativities and empty for a
better world.
KEEPINT QUIET
Not inactivity but ‘super activity`
Pablo Neruda urges us to not consider keeping quiet to be total
inactivity but keeping quiet is a
state we do the most precious act i.e. introspection retrospection
and take a right decision. He
even urges inactivity not to be confused with death. He rather gives
us a call to think above our
single mindedness. We should stop a while and put aside our
possessiveness and narrow
minded thoughts.
KEEPING QUIET.
A message of peace and a scorn to tyrants and war mongers.
Pablo Neruda with his symbolical implications urged us to unite for
good and he even made
sarcastic indirect comments to those war mongers, and oppressors
and invited them to abscond
their negative acts and introspect for better values. He symbolically
presented the fishermen to
be the oppressors and whales as the innocuous people. Then he
presented the salt gatherers
representing the lower section of the society who are the victims of
several works that damage
themselves. The poet gave a call to those war mongers, the people
who do green wars, wars with
gas and wars with fire to cease their brutal work and think
positive.ANALYSIS – LINE BY LINE
“Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.”
The poet begins with counting twelve urging everyone to be still. He
chose ‘twelve` for several
reasons. ‘Twelve’ hints at the twelve hours of a day which rules our
life. ‘Twelve` refers to
twelve zodiac signs believed to be the controlling forces of our lives.
‘Twelve` refers to twelve
months of a year. ‘Twelve` even may be aimed for a preparation
for all to be ready to plunge
into the state of silence.
Poetic devices in use
1) We will = Alliteration (line 1 and 2)
2) Count ................still – Antithesis“For once on the face of the
earth, let's not speak in
any language;”
The poet here urges everyone to break the barriers of language and
unite with one
invisible tune i.e. silence. With the word ‘earth` the poet hints at all
the humans living devoid
the identity of country creed and caste. Though language is the
identity of a country or race, he
affirms that humans are more important and the identity of being
a human of earth is broader
realization.
Poetic devices in use
1) Once on – Alliteration “let's stop forone second,
and not move our arms so much.”
The poet here urges to stop for one second. Here ‘second’ presents
the tiniest part of
time calculation. He ushers us to
keep ourselves off for at least one second from the negative aspects.
Here ‘arms’ is with dual
meaning. He apparently indicates ‘arms’ as our hands engaged in
several activities and at the
same time refers to the weapons we use for destruction.
Poetic device in use
 Arms – Pun
1) Meaning one – hands
2) Meaning two – Arms (weapons ) “It"would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines; we would
all be together in a sudden strangeness.”
We are always on move. We are all busy in accomplishing our work
and go on rushing
in our lives. The poet even urged to stop engines (referring
industrial works causing harms to
environment) . The poet urges us to stop our personal activities and
stop engines and unite in
one tune i.e. silence. The poet declares silence as exotic because this
silence will make us
blissful, strange and will bring complete equilibrium.
Poetic devices in use
1) Without .................without – Repetition 2)
We would – Alliteration.
3) Sudden strangeness – Alliteration“Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt would look at his
hurt hands.”
`If we be still, we shall be able to introspect the mistakes and
wrongs done. Here
fishermen are the representatives of all kinds of tyrants and killers.
The poet wants, them to
cease their work and realise their mistakes. The salt gatherer is
explained as the representative
of poor and lower section of the society. They go up to any level to
earn their livelihood and
often hurt themselves irreparably.
Poetic Devices in use
1) Cold sea – symbolised as polar region
2) His hurt hands – Alliteration“Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas,
wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would
put on clean clothes and walk about with their
brothers in the shade, doing nothing.”
The poet here condemns the people with green wars (biological
weapon or creators of
pollution) and wars with fire (Atomic war) . They become victorious
but with no survivors left.
The poet mocks at the victory of those people who get victory over
destruction. The poet asks
them to leave the path of destruction and join the group of silence.
He urges them to put on
white (symbolising – purity and serenity) clothes. And walk with
others doing nothing
(meaning anything negative and doing self introspection)
Poetic devices in use
1) Wars with – Alliteration
2) Wars with – Repetition
3) Clean clothes – Alliteration“What I want should not be confused
with total
inactivity. Life is what it is about;I want no truck
with death.”
The poet here warns us that his message of silence should not be
confused with total
inactivity or inertia. He further clears that his message does not
have any affinity with death
even. His message is aimed at the way of living. He wants us to stop
a while and feel the
tranquility so that a positive introspection is done.
“If we were not so single-minded about keeping
our lives moving, and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves and of
threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the
earth can teach us as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.”We human beings are single minded.
We are always busy in achieving our goals,
completing personal responsibilities. And we never stop a while to
evaluate ourselves and
understand ourselves. We never understand that we shall never be
able to come out of these
desires and achievements. If we could stop a while from these using
we would have understood
the real purpose of our lives and ourselves. Rather we go on with
the fear of death calculation
how much of our dreams and wishes will be achieved