Poem - Where The Mind Is Without Fear

1. Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
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2. Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
A native of Calcutta, India, who wrote in Bengali
and often translated his own work into English,
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1913—the first Asian person to
receive the honor. He wrote poetry, fiction,
drama, essays, and songs; promoted reforms in
education, aesthetics and religion; and in his
late 60s he even turned to the visual arts,
producing 2,500 paintings and drawings before
his death.

3. Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941

4. Where The Mind Is Without Fear
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 honor

5. Poem Summary
This poem is a contemplation of a state of being, a
place in time, and a way of living into which the
author, Tagore, wishes his country, India, would
awaken. The first nine lines of the poem present a
number of statements in which begin with the
word, “Where…” These statements are each
positive attributes which Tagore is hoping India will
achieve. The poem resolves by finishing all of these
sentences, and Tagore making a plea to his Father,
for his country to wake up into “that heaven of
freedom.”

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