Where The Mind is Without Fear

 Poem 5 Where the Mind is Without Fear

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Q.1. Name the poet of the poem.

Ans. Rabindranath Tagore.

Q.2. Everyone should have right to education.

(T/F)

Ans. True.

Q.3. The poet prays for the land where____is

without fear.

Ans. Mind.

Q.4. To whom does the poet pray in this

poem?

Ans. God.

SHORT QUESTIONS

Central Idea

Where the Mind is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore

This poem is written by Rabindranath Tagore.This is a very beautiful poem. It gives a very good message. The poet prays for his country. The poet prays for his countrymen. He wants his countrymen to live without fear. Education should be free in our country.

Or 

This is very beautiful poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It gives us a beautiful message. This poem had written before our freedom in 1912.

In the poem, the poet envisions  the future of India. In free India ,no man will live in fear. Education should be free in free India.People should be free from narrow minded thoghts.Instead, they will have a strong sense of self-dignity. They will all possess a share of knowledge or wisdom.

Reading Comprehension

(1) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

by narrow ‘domestic walls.

1. Name the poem and the poet.

2. What does the poet mean by ‘narrow domestic walls’ ?

3. Why does the poet want knowledge to be free ? 4. What kind of life does the poet want for his people ?

Answer:

1. The name of the poem is ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ and its. poet is Rabindranath Tagore.

2. By narrow domestic walls, the poet means the walls of narrow-mindedness.

3. Knowledge is essential to make the country truly free. That is why the poet wants it to be free.

4. The poet wants his people to live a life of self respect with no fear in their heart.

(2) Where the clear stream of reason

has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by Thee

Into ever-widening thought and action Into that Heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

1. What is ‘dreary desert sand’ that the poet speaks of ?

2. What does the poet want ?

3. Who leads the people into the Heaven of freedom ? How ?

Answer:

1. ‘Dreary desert sand’ is the bad course of useless customs and dead habits.

2. The poet wants that the people should be guided by reason. They should not be led by dead habits and outdated customs. They should be broad-minded.

3. God leads the people into the heaven of freedom. He does so by kindling the light of truth and reason in the people.

Q.1. Summary of the poem. OR Theme/Central

idea of the poem. OR

What does the poet desire for his country?

Ans. The poet wants his country to be a heaven

of freedom. He wants that we should give up all

evil. We should not be narrow-minded. We

should leave the thoughts of caste and creed.

Only then we will be free in the real sense.

Q.2.What is the meaning of the line „where

knowledge is free‟?

Ans. The first meaning may be that knowledge-

education-should be free of cost to all. The other

meaning may be that we should be able to

construct our knowledge freely or independently.