1. Where the mind is without fear...
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Al. Pick out line from the poem as a proof for the their good
following. 1. the poet wishes that the people of his country should be united.
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Answer:
Where the Mind is Without Fear…
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Explanation:
About the poet:
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the author of Gitanjali and its ‘profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse’. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. This poem is one of his vastly read and discussed poem. It was originally composed in Bengali and later he himself translated it into English. This poem is from his Nobel Prize winning anthology ‘Gitanjali’. Tagore lived during the time when India was ruled by the British. In this poem, besides political freedom from British, Tagore also appeals to God for social, educational and economic freedom for the people of India.
Meanings:
head held high: walk without fear or walk with pride and self respect
fragments: pieces
domestic: pertaining to family
narrow domestic walls : division on the basis of religion, caste, class and colour in societies
and between countries of the world.
tireless striving : continuous efforts and struggle.
stretches its arm : aims at achieving a goal.
deary: dull
dead habit : old traditional rituals and customs that are harmful
ever-widening : forever broadening one’s outlook.
heaven of freedom : condition of total freedom of good thoughts, good words and good deeds, while respecting those of others.
Central Idea:
This poem is a prayer to Almighty God asking to grant the country (India), freedom. It brings out not only Rabindranath Tagore’s profound love for God but also his deep patriotic feeling.Summary:
Line 1-2:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free.
Through these lines we can realize that the poet is dreaming about a place where there is no fear in people’s minds. They are walking/working with their heads held high i.e. they are proud of themselves and are not afraid of anything or anyone. He also wishes for a place where knowledge is free and there are no restrictions. All people irrespective of class caste religion, race or colour have free access to knowledge. The poet also means that knowledge is acquired freely, that is, the student studies what it wants and the way it wants to. The student should not be forced into rote learning.
Line 3-4:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Here the poet wants the whole world to be united as one nation. He portrays a border less world where people can move about freely. Nations are not fighting against nations for narrow and petty reasons.
Line 5-6:
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
The poet dreams of a nation where everybody is open and not secretive. The citizens speak and act from their heart and they work hard without prejudice, ever striving to not only perfect them but encouraging others also towards perfection. This will eventually lead to love and harmony among the citizens of the nation and the nation as a whole will march towards perfection.
Line 7-8:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way,
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit.
The poets wants the people to have clear thinking (reasoning), like the clear waters of a stream and not let their thinking flow towards dreary desert, that is, have blind beliefs and superstition. In other words, he wants people to have a logical mind which will lead them to perfection and not towards dead habits like that of the dry desert sand.
Line 9-11
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
The poet is praying to God and asking him to lead the minds of people towards a broad minded thought and action and not be stagnated by narrow minded beliefs. He is pleading with God to awaken the people of his country to a heaven of freedom.
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