Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.
Summarise the poet's message.
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INSPIRING, POETRY
“Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore to Inspire Individual and Social Change
LUCY ON JUNE 19, 2014
"Let My Country Awake" by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who
reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali, he became
the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913.
Reading the Poems That Make Grown Men Cry anthology by Anthony and Ben Holden has introduced me to so many wonderful poems, poets and – perhaps most of all – stories, especially those of the ‘grown men’ who chose the collection’s one hundred poems.
One such story was by Salil Shetty, Indian-born human rights activist and Secretary General of Amnesty International. The poem he chose was “Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), accompanied by a particularly poignant introduction.
Salil Shetty describes the poem as “a powerful call to action and a declaration of belief in achievable change”. Perhaps most moving, however, is his statement that the final phrase, “let my country awake”, could quite easily be replaced with, “let the world awake”.