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Where the Mind is Without Fear... (b) W hat ‘reason’ and ‘dead habit’ are compared to :
Q.1. Match the terms with their given meanings : (c) What the poet wishes for :
(1) Humanism (a) Concern about and action (d) How the world is broken into fragments :ss, race and
aimed at protecting the colour in societies all over the world.
environment. (e) W hat ‘tireless striving’ should be for :
(2) Patriotism (b) Holding liberal views. (f) The meaning of: ‘Where words come out from the
(3) Internationalism (c) Quality of being patriotic : depth of truth’ in your world :
vigorous support for one’s (g) Who ‘Thee’ is in the poem and what the poet appeals
country. to ‘Thee’ to do :
(4) Liberalism (d) State or process of being * (2) Complete the web :
international.
(5) Environmentalism (e) A rationalistic outlook
towards humans rather than a
divine or supernatural one.
The qualities the poet
Q.2. W rite the type of poem against its description : wants to inculcate in
(1) A long story-poem, often mythical (a) lyric his countrymen
(2) A short story poem with
a message (b) free verse
(3) A poem of 14 lines (c) epic
(4) A song-like poem (d) sonnet
(5) A poem with no uniformity *(3) Write your own response to the following : questions,
of rhyme, rhythm, etc. (e) ballad and justify where needed :
(6) A poem set in a picturesque, (a) Is the poem a prayer for India alone?
rustic background (f) limerick (b) W hat should the words we speak reflect?
(7) A sad poem, lamenting the (c) W hat should people keep on widening? How can it
death of a loved one (g) humorous be done?
(8) A 5-line short funny poem with (d) From what darkness of night should our nation
rhyme scheme aabba (h) elegy awaken?
(9) A poem written, just to create (e) W hat attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the
humour (i) idyll poem (prayer) reflect?
Extract -1 * (4) Read the poem carefully and comply table after the
Q. Read the following poem and complete the activities: discussion in pairs.
A .1. Simple Factual Activities : Concepts in Present Expected/ideal
* ( 1 ) R e a d t h e c o l u m n s c a r e f u l ly a n d m a t c h t h e the poem situation situation
expressions with their meanings : (1) mind
(1) The head is held high (a) Broadening the (2) head
outlook and attitude (3) knowledge
(2) Narrow domestic walls (b) Education is given to (4) words
all (5) habit
(3) Knowledge is free (c) Sincerity of heart (6) thought and action
(4) Depth of truth (d) Narrow-mindedness *(5) Complete the following sentences using our own
(5) Mind is without fear (e) Aim at perfection interpretation :
(6) Stretches its arms (f) A fearless person (1) W hen the mind is without fear and the head if
(7) Clear stream of reason (g) Clear thinking unbowed, we enjoy ........... freedom.
(8) Dead habits (i) Dried, infertile land of (2) When knowledge is free, every citizen enjoys the right
sands to ........... and ...........
(9) Ever-widening thought (j) A person with self- (3) W e can prevent ........... injustice when we pulldown
and action respect, and proud of discriminatory walls of caste, class, religion,
possessing it. (4) Constant effort and strife leads to achieve .............
* (2) Fill in the blanks : ...............................................
(narrow-mindedness, knowledge is free, have self- (5) Logical thinking and reasoning can put a to .......
respect, old harmful traditions, broad ) .....................................that harmful.
(1) Students should keep themselves aloof from ........... (6) Tagore appeals to God to m ak e his country a
(2) W hen ............... everyone will be literate. .............................................................................
(3) It is the social duty of every student of the modern ............................................................................
world to uproot ............from societies. Ans. (i) mental (ii) read, write (iii) social (iv) perfection
(4) Students must develop ...........outlook and attitudes. (v) superstitions (vi) heaven of freedom.
(5) In the world of sycophancy, students must ........... A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices :
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held *(1) Find out lines from the poem as a proof for the
high Alliteration
following :
Where knowledge is free (a) Tagore wishes for a nation where people are truthful.
Wher e the w or ld h as not been b roken u p in to (b) The poet would like everyone to work hard to reach
fragments their goal and in the long run to reach perfection.
Alliteration
By narrow domestic walls (c) The poet wishes that everyone in his country holds
Where words come out from the depth of truth Alliterationhis head high in dignity.
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards (d) The poet dreams of a nation where knowledge should
perfection Personification Alliteration
be free to all.
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its (e) The poem is a ‘prayer’.
way Metaphor
* (2) What effect does the repetition of the word ‘where’
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Metaphor at the beginning of each line achieve?
Alliteration
Where the mind is led forward by Thee Personification (3) Find examples of Alliteration from the poem.
Into ever-widening thought and action (4) Find examples o Personification from the poem.
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my (5) Find examples of Metaphor from the poem
country awake. Synecdoche
(6) Find the figures of speech in the line:
A. 2. Complex Factual Activities : ‘Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my
*(1) Explain the following : country awake’.
(a) W hat the poet prays to the Almighty for :while (7) Comment on the rhyme scheme of the poem
respecting those of others.