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Question
Write your own response to the following question, and justify where needed:
Is the poem a prayer for India alone?
Solution
The poem is a prayer for not only India alone, but it is also relevant for countries all over the world.
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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
In your notebook write down a line from the poem as proof for the following.
The poem is a 'prayer'
'Where words come out from the depth of truth.' Explain in your own words.
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
We can prevent ______ injustice when we pull down discriminatory walls of caste, class, religion, etc.
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
Logical thinking and reasoning can put a stop to ________
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation:
Tagore appeals to God to make his country _______
Fill in the blank:
Students must develop ________outlook and attitudes.
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 song-like poem ________.
Read the following extract and do the given activities.
A1. Read the poem carefully and match the expressions with their meanings.
| No. | Column A | No. | Column B |
| 1. | Mind is without fear | (a) | A person with self-respect and proud of possessing it. |
| 2. | Knowledge is free | (b) | Sincerity of heart. |
| 3. | The head is held high | (c) | A fearless person |
| 4. | Depth of Truth | (d) | Education is given to all. |
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high - Rabindranath Tagore |
A2. Find out the example of "Metaphor" from the poem.
A3. Write two pairs of alliteration.
