Question

Look at the line dreary desert sand of dead habit.' The sound 'd' is repeated
four times. Why? The repetition of sound gives the line a musical quality.
This poetic device is called alliteration. We will now, go back to the first part
of the poem.
Can you pick out two lines where letter and sound are repeated?
This is from Where the mind is without fear.​

Answer 1

Answer:

This poem was written when the British ruled our country. We were slaves to a foreign power. Rabindranath Tagore, the great Indian nationalist and visionary wanted India to awaken to a bright dawn of freedom – freedom from slavery and our own mental chains. Read the poem aloud once. Then read it silently. It would be a good idea to memorize the poem.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 depths 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 actioninto that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake