• Manoj Kumar Kalita

Pablo Neruda explored various themes in his poetry which attracted the poetry lovers. His usual themes of his poetry were love, time, destruction and alienation etc. Love, sex, history, nature and people’s daily activities are the common themes of his poetry. In ‘Keeping Quiet’, the poet wants to emphasize on the need to introspect and to bring in the spirit of brotherhood among the people of the world. He wants people to stop talking and stop all movements till he counts twelve, that is, for a short period of time. These moments of silence would be strange and exotic because in our everyday life we are working towards selfish goals, regardless of our requirements and others’ emotions. Hence, this sudden silence would give us an opportunity to introspect. Since we would not speak for a while, barriers between communities would break and a sense of brotherhood would prevail. Man would get an opportunity to realize how he is destroying nature and how he is harming himself. Futile wars against men and nature would be stopped and a new feeling of unity would be experienced. This paper will analyze how Pablo Neruda has used the technique of introspection for universal unity and peace.

Poetry, introspection, universal unity, peace, brotherhood

"Ethics of Human Life in Pablo Neruda’s ‘Keeping Quiet’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no.69-71, March-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803426.pdf

"Ethics of Human Life in Pablo Neruda’s ‘Keeping Quiet’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no. pp69-71, March-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803426.pdf