YoonGaSuri

POEM 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.   EXPLANATION   The poet in these lines shows his hearty desire to see his country in a place where there is no need to be worried about anything, the mind would be free of fears and everyone could live happily. Where there are no boundaries in the name of race, religion, rank, caste, creed, and culture. Where everyone strives to uplift the growth of whole society.  In that ideal world, human reason would be free of worn-out traditions and customs...

His full name was Rabindranath Tagore. He was born on 7 May 1861 in Kolkata (Calcutta) India. He was a famous poet, philosopher, prophet and a critic he died on 7 August 1941 Kolkata(Calcutta) India. Tagore rejected formal schooling and learned much at home. He attended University College, London,  to study law but quit before the completion of the degree. Although Tagore is famous for poetry, he did his best in writing novels, essays, short stories, plays and articles. His masterwork is ‘ Gitanjali ’ (a collection of poems) a spiritual journey from finite to infinite, it earned him the title of ‘mystic poet’. He composed more than 2000 songs. He is the official composer for the national anthem of  India and Bangladesh. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘Gitanjali’. In 1915, the British Crown granted a Knighthood that he returned after Jallianwala Bagh massacre (also known as the Amritsar took place on April 1919 when British Indian Army fired machine guns on unarme...