(B) 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 awake?
(e) What attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the poem (prayer) reflect? (f) What effect does the repetition of the word 'where' at the begining of each line?
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a) No, the poem isn't a prayer for India alone. ... The poem was primarily meant for India, no doubt. The poet prays for his 'country' to raise it to a 'heaven of freedom', as it was still under the rule of external forces.
b) According to Rabindranath Tagore in his poem 'Where the Mind is Without Fear', the words we speak should reflect utmost truth. Where words come out from the depth of truth.
C)According to the poem, people should keep on widening their thoughts and actions in order to accommodate progressive ideas. This can be achieved by not letting the social evils like casteism, linguism, and racial discrimination to affect one's thoughts and actions.
d) According to the poet in 'Where the Mind is Without Fear' by Rabindranath Tagore, our nation should be awakened from the darkness of fear, ignorance, prejudices, disunity, laziness, falsehood and other social evils to a state where freedom would be felt at its best.
e) The poem reflects Rabindranath Tagore's patriotism and love for his country, his clear-thinking his broad outlook, his scientific attitude and his emphasis on hard work
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. The use of 'where' so many times enables the poet to describe the 'heaven of freedom' which he wants for his country
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