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Now, let’s read this famous patriotic 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 depth 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 Do you feel the
same as the poet
Let’s connect
Where the mind is led forward by thee feels for his country?
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. fragments: (here) refers to
divisions, separations, or barriers
that create a fractured world
—Rabindranath Tagore tireless: the quality of striving,
effort, or action that continues
without getting weary or giving
About the Poet up
dreary: something dull, lifeless,
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali or monotonous
poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian ever-widening: (here) conveys
art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of many verses, short stories and the idea of continuous expansion
novels such as Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel or growth
Prize in Literature. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems:
India’s Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh’s Amar Shonar Bangla.
Time to answer
A. Choose the correct option.
1. ‘Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high’ refers to a state of mind
characterised by .
arrogance and overconfidence fearlessness and self-assuredness
stubbornness and defiance conceit and superiority
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