Question

1.‘Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit’
a)Why do you think the habit is considered dead?
b)Pick out the figures of speech in the above lines and explain.

Answer 1

Tagore, an Indian polymath and proponent of Indian independence, is writing this poem in address to God, "my Father," in the hopes that his country will be permitted to "awake . . . into that heaven of freedom." It is this heaven, then, that Tagore is describing as a place where "the clear stream of reason has not lost ..

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Answer 2

Answer:

The poet uses metaphor for reason and habit .He refers to reason as a' clear stream' That Is Pure and not contaminated. Here is speaking about the thoughts of people which he says should be clear, Nobel ,honest and free from all sorts of corruption dreary desert sand of Dead habit also refers to the evils in the society like the superstitious practices that left logic and reason.