Where the Mind is Without Fear All Questions Answers | Class 7

 Where the Mind is Without Fear All Questions Answers | Lesson 1 |  Class 7 | Sankardev Shishu Niketan Solutions Assam 

Where the Mind is Without Fear All Questions Answers | Class 7 

Where the mind is without fear is a Pre-independent poem written by Nobel Laurete Rabindranath Tagore. In this poem the poet Rabindranath Tagore depicts the picture of a new and awakened India. Where The Mind is without  fear is one of the Tagore's most anthologised poems. In this Post we are about to discuss questions and answers of the poem Where the Mind is without fear. The very first Lesson of Class 7 | English of Sankardev Shishu Niketan school contain this amazing poem by Rabindranath Tagore. So in this post you will get all the textual questions and answers of Where the mind is without fear.

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 

Exercises 

I. a) Let's look at the interesting use of the relative adverb 'where' in all but 1 line of 

the poem. The lines start with 'where 

Line 1 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; 

Here 'where' relates to 'mind' and now find out what 'where' relates to lead' in the other lines. 

Answer: In the other line, 'Where'  the mind is led forward into ever-widening thought and action.

b) Find out the negative words in the poem, eg, fear, broken. 

Answer: Other negative words are fragments, dead, lost, dreary.

c) Say whether true or false 

1. The poet describes an ideal place 

Answer: True

 2. Narrow domestic walls mean a lack of understanding between man and man.

Answer: True. 

3. 'Dead habit' means old habits. 

Answer: True.

4. Truth, perfection, and reason are not to be found in that 'heaven' 

Answer: False.

5. Tireless striving cannot reach perfection.

Answer: True. 

II. Give 5 short sentences to describe the heaven that the poet wants for his country men eg. a place where knowledge is free 

Answer: 

(i) A Place where Mind is without fear.

(ii) Place where people is honest, open - minded and industrious.

(iii) A Place where people use reasons over their blind faiths.

(iv) A Place where people are free from corruption, slavery and manipulation.

(v) A place with freedom of mind and expression of ideas.

1. Who does 'thee' refer to? 

Answer: In this poem 'thee' refers to God.

2. What does the poet expect a man to possess? 

Answer: The poet expect a man to possess the 'heaven of freedom' and happier future for mankind.

3. How can one achieve perfection? 

Answer: One can Achieve perfection only if he is open-minded, honest and industrious.

4. What is a 'dead habit'? 

Answer:  Here in this poem by the term 'Dead Habit' poet means 'Old habit' of blind faith.  People need to use their reasons over the blind faiths and must accept new thoughts and ideas. 

5. What are 'narrow domestic walls? 

Answer: Narrow Domestic walls means Prejudice, blind faith and superstitions.

6. Does this poem remind you of any poem of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore? 

Answer: Yes this poem reminds me of "Freedom of thought' another famous poem of Rabindra Nath Tagore.

7. The word Where' is frequently used in this poem. Why?

Answer:  In this poem the poet Rabindranath Tagore depicts the picture of a new and awakened India. The use of 'Where' so many times enables the poet to describe the 'Heaven of freedom' which he wants for his country.