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प्रश्न
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
Tagore appeals to God to make his country _______
उत्तर
Tagore appeals to God to make his country heaven where people have good thoughts, say good words and do good actions.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in paragraph format.
Where the Mind is Without Fear …
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
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Who is 'Thee' in the poem? What does the poet appeal to 'Thee' to do?
Read the poem carefully and complete the table after the discussion in pairs. One is done for you.
|
Concepts in the poem |
Present situation |
Expected/ideal situation |
| (1) mind | mind is full of fear | fearless mind |
| (2) head | ||
| (3) knowledge | ||
| (4) words | ||
| (5) habit | ||
| (6) thought and action |
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
When knowledge is free, every citizen enjoys the right to ______ and _______
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
Constant effort and strife leads to _______
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
Logical thinking and reasoning can put a stop to ________
Read the short story written by Rabindranath Tagore ‘The Kabuliwala’ or ‘The Home Coming.’
Taking the help of a dictionary/internet guess and write the type of poem against its description.
A poem of 14 lines ______.
Taking the help of a dictionary/internet guess and write the type of poem against its description.
A sad poem, lamenting death of a loved one ______.
Taking the help of a dictionary/internet guess and write the type of poem against its description.
A 5-line short funny poem with rhyme scheme aabba.
