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    This poem expresses Rabindranath Tagore's longing for an independent India free from British rule, where people's minds are liberated from fear and superstition. He prays to God to awaken the people and guide them towards enlightenment, education, honesty, and progress. Tagore hopes that one day India will be united and prosperous, with its people living with dignity, equality, and freedom of thought and expression.

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    This poem expresses Rabindranath Tagore's longing for an independent India free from British rule, where people's minds are liberated from fear and superstition. He prays to God to awaken the people and guide them towards enlightenment, education, honesty, and progress. Tagore hopes that one day India will be united and prosperous, with its people living with dignity, equality, and freedom of thought and expression.

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    “Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a thought-provoking poem by Nobel


    Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian writer. Tagore is a poet,
    dramatist and often refers to as ‘the Bard of Bengal’.
    It is one the best poems in the anthology called “Gitanjali” which was
    published in 1912 and won the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in
    1913.
    When Tagore composed this poem his mind was confined by the chains of
    slavery-like any other common citizens of India because India was under
    the clutch of the British Rule where freedom was like day-dreaming.

    This poem is written in the form of prayer to God, the true bearer of
    freedom. He urges God throughout the poem with his mysterious concept
    of freedom from the struggle for awakening to his countrymen.

    Summary
    “Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a pre-independent poem in which
    the poet sincerely urges to God to awake his fellow beings for the
    realization that the essential need to live in a free and united country. He
    wants his countrymen to awake and enjoy the life of full dignity and
    honour.

    His countrymen would not be superstitious or believers of blind faith


    rather than they would lead the life of enlightened and educated.

    He wishes to the people, to be honest, open-minded and industrious. Then


    only they would stretch their ‘arms towards perfection’ and the nation
    can actually achieve the apex of success.
    They need to use their reasons over their blind faiths and must be ready to
    accept new thoughts and ideas. He requests God to free his country from
    manipulation, corruption, and slavery. He yearns for an awakened country
    where there would be freedom of the mind and expression of ideas.

    The poem invokes the deep patriotic feelings. Our country is subjugated
    by castes, creed, superstitious beliefs and biased ideas. Tagore earnestly
    appeals to God that a country would be where people‟s ‘head is
    high’ and ‘knowledge is free’.
    His country would not be divided and fragmented into pieces due to their
    narrow thoughts. They should express their words not from the mind but
    from ‘the depth of truth’ and heart.
    He urges God to guide his countrymen for moral awakening to fight for
    their rights against British inhuman rules. Liberate them from the fear of
    oppression, repression, and subjugation. Unshackle the chains of fear and
    direct them to the paths of progress and prosperity.

    They should be confident not confined. There would not be injustice and
    inequality in the country on the basis of caste, creed, and gender.

    Countrymen should be unprejudiced and open-minded accepting the new


    challenges and changes. They should lead their lives of decency and
    dignity.

    To conclude “Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a poem in which


    Tagore reveals his personal quest for the Divine and characterized by a
    variety of original themes both in thought and expression.

    Therefore, this poem is remarkable to a great extent which expresses the


    intensity of the feeling of freedom. His poem is universal in its appeal and
    envisions the „heaven of freedom‟ and happier future for mankind.

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