Question
What should the words we speak reflect?
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Answer
The words we speak should reflect our sincerity and truthfulness.
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(2) The grin grew broad
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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. - Rabindranath Tagore
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
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Concepts in the poem | Present situation | Expected/ideal situation |
(1) mind | mind is full of fear | fearless mind |
(2) head | ____________ | ____________ |
(3) knowledge | ____________ | ____________ |
(4) words | ____________ | ____________ |
(5) habit | ____________ | ____________ |
(6) thought and action | ____________ | ____________ |
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| Stages | Evidence (lines from the extract) |
| (a) the reaction of the rational father | |
| (b) the various superstitions versus the scientific | |
| (c) evil versus good |
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| Background/setting of the poem | ||
| Type | Evidence (guote lines from the extract) | |
| Rural | ||
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