Freedom by rabindranath tagore summary

‘Freedom’ is a short poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It details on the kind of freedom the poet’s persona wants India to achieve. About the Poet: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prominent poet who wrote both in English and Bengali. In 1913, he was a awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work ‘Gitanjali’. After being knighted in 1951, he renounced it in 1991 following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Famous works of his include ‘Gitanjali’, ‘Ghare-Baire’ and India’s national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’. Theme: The theme of this poem, as the title suggests, is the idea of freedom. The persona expresses their desire for independence, their longing for their country, that is, India, to achieve liberty from the hands of the British. Stanza 1: Freedom from fear is the freedom I claim for you my motherland! Freedom from the burden of the ages, bending your head, Breaking your back, blinding your eyes to the beckoning call of the future; Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith You fasten yourself in night's stillness, Mistrusting the star that speaks of truth's adventurous paths; This is a poem that is addressed by the persona to their motherland, India. The first thing they state about the kind of freedom they wish for India to achieve is freedom from fear in itself, for fear is the main factor that holds back people. They want the kind of freedom that frees India from the burden of its past beliefs and stereotypes, that shames it and restrains it from the br...

“Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a thought-provoking poem by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian writer. Tagore is a poet, dramatist and often refers to as ‘the Bard of Bengal’. It is one the best poems in the anthology called “ Gitanjali” which was published in 1912 and won the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. When Tagore composed this poem his mind was confined by the chains of slavery-like any other common citizens of India because India was under the clutch of the British Rule where freedom was like day-dreaming. This poem is written in the form of prayer to God, the true bearer of freedom. He urges God throughout the poem with his mysterious concept of freedom from the struggle for awakening to his countrymen. Summary of the Poem “Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a pre-independent poem in which the poet sincerely urges to God to awake his fellow beings for the realization that the essential need to live in a free and united country. He wants his countrymen to awake and enjoy the life of full dignity and honour. His countrymen would not be superstitious or believers of blind faith rather than they would lead the life of enlightened and educated. He wishes to the people, to be honest, open-minded and industrious. Then only they would stretch their ‘arms towards perfection’ and the nation can actually achieve the apex of success. They need to use their reasons over their blind faiths and must be ready to accept new thoughts and ideas. He req...

The ‘Heaven of freedom’ which the poet refers to in this poem, is the heaven he visualizes his country as, after it attains freedom. a country united under one banner not broken up into smaller sections by prejudices and superstitions that were prevalent at that time. He visualizes the a country which is not divided by cast, creed, gender, religion or language, a country which is not suppressed and everyone has the right to voice their opinion, he visualizes a Utopian world where he and his countrymen could experience the true meaning of freedom. He prays for a country where free education is imparted to everyone, and not just those who could afford it. This ‘Heaven’ would have an education system which wouldn’t curtail free thinking and only encourage learning which included learning texts. He wishes for a country whose countrymen were not lethargic but instead they were continuously trying to strive for perfection and achieve their goals. By ‘Heaven of Freedom’ Tagore wanted to mean the realization of freedom at its best. Mere political freedom was not enough to Tagore. He realized the need for the feeling of freedom to be felt, and the consequences to be reflected in the production and progress of the nation. According to the poet, to make our country a heaven of freedom, the people should be fearless, knowledgeable, truthful, rational, hard-working and broad-minded. They should possess the good human virtues to avoid any harm done to themselves and to other. Moreover, ...

Freedom Poem by Rabindranath Tagore Introduction Rabindranath Tagore was a well-known figure in Bengal, India, during the nineteenth century. He was interested in the common people and worked for social reform, in addition to his varied literary activities. At Shantiniketan, he founded an experimental school to test his Upanishadic educational ideals. He also participated in the Indian Nationalist Movement. He became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage to the rest of the world, and a great living institution in India, particularly in Bengal. In the poem ‘Freedom’ through his non-sentimental and visionary approach he states the need for freedom to begin from each and every individual heart and then it could be felt in the pairs. Summary of the Poem “Freedom”. Freedom is a patriotic poem by Tagore, The Bard of Bengal. He bought fame by being the first non-European to get the Nobel prize in Literature in 1913, especially by his outstanding book ‘Gitanjali’. In the poem ‘Freedom,’ he expresses his hopes and vision for his motherland, India, in the poem “Freedom.” He was an outspoken supporter of Indian independence from Britain and wanted the end the end of the British Raj, which is the theme of the poem “Freedom.” The first wish he has for India is freedom from fear. He believes that his countrymen’s fear is to blame for her plight as a slave. In the first two lines of the poem, he refers to India as the “motherland” and expresses his desire for India to be free of fear. ...

Tagore started Santiniketan as a Tapovan – a forest school – both to take inspiration from Nature and to create an Indian Renaissance. He wrote, in An Eastern University: “The unfortunate people who have lost the harvest of their past have lost their present age. They have missed their seed for cultivation, and go begging for their bare livelihood. We must not imagine that we are one of those disinherited peoples of the world. The time has come for us to break open the treasure trove of our ancestors, and use it for our commerce of life. Let us, with its help, make our future our own, and not continue our existence as the eternal rag-pickers in other people’s dustbins.” Tagore encouraged his secretary, Leonard Elmhirst, to start a Santiniketan-like school in England. This is how The Dartington Hall Trust was established, from which grew Schumacher College, the first green college in the West. And back in India, Navdanya’s Bija Vidyapeeth was started by Satish Kumar and me as a sister institution of Schumacher College. All these institutions are thus connected, through the inspiration of Tagore, to the ancient culture of the forest. These learning centres are teaching freedom and Earth Democracy in times of multiple crises intensified by globalisation. Today, just as in Tagore’s time, we need to turn to the forest for lessons in freedom. As Tagore wrote in The Religion of the Forest, the ideal of perfection preached by the forest dwellers of ancient India runs through the h...