CBSE 2025, Set 3

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Answer in 120-150 words : (1x5=5 marks)
(b) Discuss how the poems 'Keeping Quiet' and 'A Thing of Beauty' draw attention to the importance of beauty and introspection.

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The correct answer is Subjective. Both poems emphasize finding peace and meaning in life, though through different lenses—introspection and the appreciation of beauty. **Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda):** - The poem intensely focuses on the need for introspection and reflection. It suggests that keeping quiet and being still will nurture global harmony, peace, and brotherhood. - It urges mankind to pause their relentless, destructive, and single-minded activities to understand themselves and others better. - Neruda uses the beauty of the Earth to teach us that pausing is not death; it allows for regeneration and rejuvenation for a better life. **A Thing of Beauty (John Keats):** - Keats focuses on external and spiritual beauty, asserting that a beautiful thing is a joy forever and never passes into nothingness. - It keeps a "shady bower" for man to relax, destress, and experience good sleep and sweet dreams. - The beauty of nature, as well as the "grandeur of dooms" (heroic tales of our ancestors), acts as an antidote to human misery, moving away the pall of gloom from dark spirits and providing the strength and inspiration needed to face life's struggles.

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