The poem is (where mind is without fear)
A. Answer the following questions.
1. What country is the poet writing about in his poem Where the Mind is Without Fear
2. What, according to the poet, do people tirelessly strive towards?
3. How does the poet describe old habits?
4 What does the poet compare reason to in this poem?
What is the poer's ideal country, as described in this poem?
6. What is the tone of the poem? Is it optimistic or pessimistic?
Answers
Answer:
1) India.
2)The phrase 'tireless striving' is used by the poet to urge his countrymen to break free from sloth and inactivity and struggle hard constantly to achieve perfection in whatever they choose to do and thus make their country a free nation.
3)Tagore has compared those old and useless habits to a dreary desert that can choke a river of fresh water.
4) the poet compares 'reason' to a clear stream.
5) The minds of his countrymen should be free from any fear and their heads should be held high in dignity. He wants knowledge to be free in his country and each and everyone should be allowed to acquire it.
6)The tone of the poem is optimistic. The poet wants freedom for his country because being free from the shackles of ignorance and narrow-mindedness would take it to the heights of success and it will create a name for itself in the whole world.
Explanation:
1)The poem is written by Rabinthranath Tagore. He is an Indian poet.