3) Write in your notebook your own response and justify, where needed.
(a) Is the poem a prayer for India alone?
(b) What should the words we speak reflect?
(c) What should people keep on widening? How can it be done?
(d) From what darkness of night should our nation awaken?
(e) What attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the poem (prayer) reflect?
(1) What effect does the repetition of the word 'where at the begining of
each line?
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Answer:(a) No, the poem is not a prayer for India alone. Because the poet stresses on the unity of not just his countrymen but also the entire world. He does not want a world where people are divided and discriminated on the basis of caste, creed, colour, religion or other baseless superstitions.
(b) The word we speaks reflects our honest and truthfulness.
(c) The poet wants his people to express the opinion freely. Their thoughts and actions must be broad and wide. Every individual must always aim for excellence in every sphere of his life. The poet wants his country to be awakened where God will lead his people into an ideal heaven where they are free and strive hard. God will guide them in the progressive path of thought and action. They will be thoughtful as well as ready to put those thoughts into actions that will help them to attain true freedom.
(d) The poem was written when India was facing oppression in the hands of the British. India had lost her supremacy and her glory. She was in a deep slumber of ignorance. Thus, the poet wants his country to awake from her slumber, he wants his country to awake into 'that heaven of freedom' where there would be no fear or oppression, where there would be no "narrow domestic walls', where people would be guided by God and where there would be the true light of freedom.
(e) He wants his men to be able to live in dignity which will come from being hardworking, courageous, and open minded. The poem was written when India was under the British rule and the Indians struggled for freedom. But, for Tagore, freedom was more than merely political; he dwell on the theme of spiritual freedom: freedom of mind, speech, thought, belief, practice and behaviour.
(f) The repetition of the word 'where' at the beginning of every line gives it the emphasis it needs to build to the main point the poet aims to deliver at the end of the poem.