4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow :
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.
la) What are meant by the expressions, mind is without fear' and head is
held high?
(b) What does the poet want to convey through the expression, Where
knowledge is free?
lo What are the feelings invoked by the phrase, domestic walls?
OR
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
(a) Why does the poet call the woods yellow wood?
(b) Who is the traveller? Why does he feel sorry?
(c) Why does the poet look down the road as far as he can see?
Answers
Answer:
a) Tagore means to say it a radical thinking .He means that the people should be led by the power of reasoning to be focused on the future by applying about "logical thinking ",thought, actions. It should ve a nation where superstitious habits of thought and action have not put out the lights of reasoning.
b)The poet wants to say that when thought and knowledge are free from all the prejudices and narrow considerations are ever-widening etc. i.e. to be logical and progessive in knowledge and actions .
c)The feelings invoked by this phrase are
1.people should have the power to reason out the bad and useless customs.
2. we should neglect narrow considerations of caste, creed, colour,sex,religion and many more blind faiths and superstitions
3.and at last we should achieve perfection through continuous efforts and relentless struggles.
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