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Where the Mind is without Fear
- Rabindranath Tagore
About Poet:
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861- 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel Laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
About Poem:
'Where the mind is without fear' is a short lyric poem taken from “Gitanjali”, a collection of 103 English poems. It is a prayer to God, the Father. In this poem, Tagore prays to God for true freedom that lies in a full and honorable living. He prays to God that his countrymen should be fearless, truthful, rational, God-fearing, noble and generous. Knowledge should be free and there should be no divisions of caste, creed and nationality. He prays to God to help people achieve perfection in different fields, to help his countrymen to follow the path of logical thinking and not to indulge their mind in outdated customs and traditions. According to Tagore, the outdated customs and traditions close the ways to progress and perfection. Hence, he wants his countrymen leave behind all the outdated customs and traditions and should fill their minds with logical thinking and lead themselves on the path of progress.
Words:
fragments: n. = small parts broken off from large one
striving: n. =attempts/efforts
stretch: v. = extend one's arms
perfection: n. = the state of being excellent/faultless
dreary: adj. = boring, something that makes you sad
desert sand: np. dry sand
dead habit: np. old practices
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