Question- 1: How does Tagore want his country to awake into a heaven of freedom?
Answer : Rabindranath Tagore feels pain to see so many bars to real freedom in his land. Tagore wants to break the walls of narrow thinking, superstitions, ignorance, and fear. The poet wants people to be fearless and active in following the path of non-stop activities and truth. He desires people to bid farewell to the age-old customs, dead habits and meaningless prejudices. The poet on the otherhand, wishes all to be united and to have brotherhood and progressive thinkings and thus he wants his land to awake into a paradise of true freedom.
Question- 2: Who is the ‘Father’ referred to in Tagore’s poem? What does the poet pray to him?
Answer : ‘Father’ as referred to in Tagore’s poem, is the Supreme Being, God.
The poet prays to God to better the all-round standard of his countrymen. He prays to God to make people’s head hold high, to take them to an ideal heaven of freedom, where all can learn freely, where no evil like the barrier of prejudice, race, religion, creed and superstition exists. The poet prays to God to take all the Indians to that ideal paradise of freedom where all’s activities will go forward towards perfection and brotherhood will be attained.
Question- 3: What does Tagore mean by the expression ‘narrow domestic walls’ ? Why is reason compared to a ‘clear stream’ by Tagore?
Answer : The expression ‘narrow domestic walls’ means the out-dated barriers of race, caste, religion, unnecessary prejudices, superstitions and social barriers.
If a river has a strong flow of water, it can flow forward and spontaneously. Similarly the unbiased and unfettered reasoning paves the way for a land’s real progress very smoothly and spontaneously. So the poet compares reason to a clear stream.
Question-4: Describe the ‘heaven of freedom’ that Rabindranath Tagore prays for his country to awake into?
Answer : The poet Rabindranath Tagore expects the Indians to reach an ideal place of independence where so many evils do not hamper man’s onward progress.
In such an ideal state people should be free from all meaningless prejudices, unnecessary customs, superstitions, narrowness of thinking and inaction. In this ideal land of freedom, people should keep their heads high, follow the path of non-stop activities and cultivate progressive thinkings and have real brotherhood.
The poet prays that his country people should reach that ideal heaven of freedom in the true sense of the term.
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