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प्रश्न
Write in your notebook your own response and justify, where needed.
From what darkness of night should our nation awaken?
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उत्तर
Our nation should awaken from the darkness of prejudices, societal division, harmful traditional rituals and customs, the imparting of knowledge to select people, insincerity, untruthfulness, fear, and a lack of self-respect.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in paragraph format.
Where the Mind is Without Fear …
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
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In your notebook write down a line from the poem as proof for the following.
The poet would like everyone to work hard to reach their goal and in the long run to reach perfection.
In your notebook write down a line from the poem as proof for the following.
The poet wishes that everyone in his country holds his head high in dignity.
In your notebook write down a line from the poem as proof for the following.
The poem is a ‘prayer’
‘Where words come out from the depth of truth.’ Explain in your own words.
Write your own response to the following question, and justify where needed:
What attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the poem (prayer) reflect?
Tagore appeals to God to make his country a ______.
When ______ everyone will be literate.
Read the short story written by Rabindranath Tagore ‘The Kabuliwala’ or ‘The Home Coming.’
Visit the website and collect more information about Rabindranath Tagore’s life and work.
Poems in English are of different types.
- Sonnet
- Limerick
- Ballad
- Elegy
- Free verse
- Epic
- Lyric
- Humorous
- Idyll
Taking the help of a dictionary/internet guess and write the type of poem against its description.
A short story poem with a message ______.
