Write summary of the chapter "My Heaven" by Rabindranath Tagore.
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In this poem the poet advises his countrymen to know the meaning of true happiness. They should live in an atmosphere free from fear where they feel themselves proud and dignified. Everybody should be free in getting knowledge and using his reasoning power. Society should not be divided into small sections on the narrow basis of religion, caste and language. They should be true to everyone.
My Heaven
By Rabindranath Tagore
My Heaven is a short poem of two stanzas with worldly meanings and ardent devotion to motherland written by Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore.
Basic Summary:
Through this poem, the poet is trying to depict the nation of his dreams - the ideal land he wants his mother land to be. In both the stanzas of the poem, Tagore depicts each and every ideal he wants his fellow men to have in his motherland and prays to Lord to let his motherland wake to freedom.
The ideals Tagore mentions are pride, fearlessness, knowledge, perfection, self-respect, proper reasoning and actions which all count upto to proper freedom which his nation wants.
Explanation:
Stanza 1
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 depth of truth.
Ideals mentioned:
Fearlessness, self-respect and pride, importance of knowledge, freedom, no kinds of discrimination and truth.
Verse meaning:
where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
- This specific verse means that Tagore wants a nation which is not discriminated and classified on the basis of caste, gender race etc.
Stanza 2
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 action
– Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake
Ideals mentioned:
Hardworking citizens for a perfect nation, proper reasoning void improper superstitions, thoughtful actions that leads a clear mind and freedom which is a result of all the mentioned ideals.