Where The Mind Is Without Fear ICSE Class 10, 9 English Poem Analysis

Where The Mind Is Without Fear ICSE Class 10, 9 English Poem Analysis

Rabindranath Tagore

Born – May 7, 1861, Calcutta, British India.

Died – August 07, 1941, Calcutta British India

He was a man with multifarious abilities. He was a true scholar who contributed extensively to poetry, short story, song composition, novel writing as a playwright, essayist, and painter.

Notable Works Of Rabindranath Tagore

  • Gitanjali
  • Gora Ghare Baire
  • Jana Gana Mana
  • Rabindra Sangeet.
  • Amar Sonar Bangla

and many more….

Awards

  • Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
  • Knighthood by the British in 1915.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear 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
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.

About Where The Mind Is Without Fear Poem

“Where the Mind is Without Fear” is one of the most celebrated poems of Tagore.
Tagore. The poem takes us to a different realm where the poet acquaints us with Tagore’s dream of India. His dream is about a new and awakened India. He tells us
about being free not only from foreign rule but also from dogmatic coercion. He asks his countrymen to get nourished by true freedom which enables one with many positive qualities like fearlessness, broad-mindedness, liberal state of mind, dignity simplicity, and sincerity.

Source Of This Poem

This poem was first composed in 1900 and first appeared in the volume of ‘Naivedya’
in the month of July 1901. Later it was recorded as the poem no. 36 in Tagore’s world famous work “Gitanjali” in 1912.

Poetic Devices And Anaphora

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

2.  Where the words came out from the depth of truth

Where the less striving stretches its arms towards perfection.

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way.

3. Into ever widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Alliteration

  1. Held high
  2. been broken
  3. where words
  4. striving stretches
  5. dreary desert.

Metaphor

  1. Clear stream of reason
  2. dreary desert of dead habit

Personification

  1. “A tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection”.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear – A Poem Of Prayer

We find this very poem in the volume of “Naivedya”. And the title of the original poem is “Prarthana”. Tagore here prays to the Almighty with some innate desires. He wishes that the motherland must achieve freedom, progress, and happiness free from fear and all kinds of pessimistic aspects. Prayer to God is to bestow true knowledge to all individuals, to unite all the religions. Above all the prayer is to awaken India to its heavenly state.

Total Freedom Without Freedom

This poem was written during the British Rule in India. Common people of India were under suppression. Tagore aspired his countrymen to attain total freedom. He did not only aspire free from the rule of the British, rather he wanted his countrymen to be free in all aspects such as political, intellectual, religious, moral, and so on.

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