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Unit 18: Where the Mind is Without Fear by Tagore

5. Where The Mind is Without Fear has been taken from his English Notes

(a) ‘Gitanjali’
(b) My expriement with truth
(c) Shadow
(d) none

6. In ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’, Tagore sketches a moving picture of the country
(a) England
(b) Italy
(c) India
(d) America
7. The India of Tagore’s dream is a country where her people hold their head

(a) high
(b) low
(c) straight
(d) none

18.3 Summary

• In the poem, ‘Where The Mind Is Without Fear’, Tagore sketches a moving picture of the
nation he would like India to be. Where everyone within the fold of the brotherhood is
free to hold up one’s head high and one’s voice to be heard without having any tension
of fear of oppression or forced compulsion. Where the knowledge is not restricted by
narrow ideas and loyalties. He felt, that the British rule had robbed India of its pride and
dignity by reducing it to a subject nation.

18.4 Keywords

Striving : Making great efforts
Dignity : The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect
Creed : A system of religious belief
Utopia : An imagined perfect place or state of things
Harmony : The combination of simultaneous sounded musical notes to produce a
pleasing effect.
Bondage : The state of being a slave or feudal serf.

18.5 Review Questions

1. Who wrote ‘where the mind is without fear’?
2. Describe the aim of Tagore in writing ‘where the mind is without fear’.
3. Write the theme of the poem ‘where the mind is without fear’.
4. What was Tagore’s dream in his poem ‘where the mind is without fear’?

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