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Question
Almost every line of the poem begins with the word ‘Where’ and it expects an idealistic country and countrymen. Now work in a group of six students and compose your poem regarding ‘Ideal School’. Begin your lines with the word ‘Where’ .......
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Solution
Where the bells always chime
Where projects are submitted on time
Where teachers guide us and make us wise
Where together schoolmates play and rise
Where holidays are not such a pleasant sight
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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
Read the columns carefully and match the expressions with their meanings.
| No. | Column A | Column B | |
| (1) | The head is held high | (a) | A fearless person |
| (2) | Narrow domestic walls | (b) | Sincerity of heart |
| (3) | Knowledge is free | (c) | A person with self-respect and proud of possessing it |
| (4) | Depth of truth | (d) | Narrow mindedness |
| (5) | Mind is without fear | (e) | Education is given to all |
| (6) | Stretches its arms | (f) | Dried up, infertile land of sands |
| (7) | Clear stream of reason | (g) | Clear thinking |
| (8) | Dead habits | (h) | Aim at perfection |
| (9) | Ever widening thought and action | (i) | Broadening the outlook and attitude |
Write in your notebook your own response and justify, where needed.
What should the words we speak reflect?
Write your own response to the following question, and justify where needed:
What attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the poem (prayer) reflect?
When the mind is without fear and the head is unbowed, we enjoy ______ freedom.
When knowledge is free, every citizen enjoys the right to ______ and ______.
Constant effort and strife leads to _______.
Logical thinking and reasoning can put a stop to ______.
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 poem written, just to create humour ______.
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:
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Where the Mind is Without Fear... Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high - Rabindranath Tagore |
Points
- The title and the poet of the poem (01)
- Rhyme scheme (01)
- Figures of speech (01)
- Central Idea/Theme (02)
