WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR
Rabindranath Tagore
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| WEST BANGAL RABINDRANATH TAGORE |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913,was one of the greatest lyric poets of the world. He was also a noted dramatist, novelist, short story writer, philosopher, humanist, nation-builder and founder of an international university at Shantiniketan, He wrote primarily in Bangla, but rendered a large number of his own works into English, and in the process wrote them anew. Such works include Gitanjali., The Crescent Moon, and The Gardener. His other important works include Gora, The Wreck The Post Office, Sadhana and The Home and the World. 'Where the mind is without Fear', a lyric taken from Gitanjali, is one of his best-remembered patriotic poems. It is a prayer to God to awaken the country from darkness and slavery into a state of ideal freedom. The whole poem is a single complex sentence whose principal clause is the last line.
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 the heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
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