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Question
Complete the following sentence using your own interpretation.
When the mind is without fear and the head is unbowed, we enjoy ______ freedom.
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Solution
When the mind is without fear and the head is unbowed, we enjoy complete freedom.
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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 |
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Write in your notebook your own response and justify, where needed.
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- Sonnet
- Limerick
- Ballad
- Elegy
- Free verse
- Epic
- Lyric
- Humorous
- Idyll
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