question_answer 2)

Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?    

Answer:

No, the poet does not advocate total inactivity and death. He feels that peace and tranquility should not be understood as utter lethargy. That itself would mean death—the end of everything. He wants a perceptive silence in which people are not obsessed with apparent progress. That to the poet is mere existence and not progress. This silence might postpone the unhappiness linked to the unthinking existence of man that leads to self-destruction.