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(i) Life is what it is about.
(ii) As when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.
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(i) The poet urges all the people to observe silence and stand still for a while. He wants this time to be utilised for quiet introspection and to create better understanding among human beings. He does not suggest the stillness and silence of death. Life, after all, has to go on. The normal and necessary activities cannot be suspended.
(ii) In nature the seasons change regularly. In cold winter when it snows, the earth’looks all dead no greenery, no flowering, no movement of birds and beasts. But this situation is misleading. After a month or so, the earth proves itself better equipped for a new life.