What does the word 'penury' in the peom "prayer" for strength" mean?................................
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Penury means extreme poverty. in this poem it means spiritual poverty
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Tagore prays that God will strike at the root of "penury" in his heart. This "penury," or spiritual poverty, originates from the elevation of Self.
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Penury comes from the latin word Penuria,meaning "want".
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It sometimes had a broad sense of "lack" or "scarcity", as when one character remarks on another's "penury of conversation" in Jane Austen's Emma.
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