Rabindranath Tagore's poem "Where the Mind Is Without Fear" was written at the turn of the twentieth century, when India was under British rule. The poem takes the form of a prayer, where the speaker is an Indian citizen asking God to make his country free. For Tagore's speaker, true freedom is a mind without fear of oppression.
It's also an India where, as the speaker says in the first line, "the head is held high" and men and women are treated with dignity. In his vision, "knowledge is free," too; the speaker longs for the day when education isn't solely reserved for the wealthy, as it was at the time Tagore wrote the poem.
The mind in Tagore's poem, therefore, isn't the mind of just one person; it's the mind of India. The speaker wants a better future not just for himself, but for all of India, and he believes the only way to achieve that is for the people of India to come together and stand up for themselves against British tyranny. As the final line of the poem makes clear, the poem is part prayer and part call to arms:
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
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Monday, October 6, 2014
What does the poet say about"mind without fear"and whose mind does he talk about?
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