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FREEDOM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
hackles- restraints, handcuffs
slumber- sleep
Anarchy –chaos, revolution
Helm- controls
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:
2. Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
you fasten yourself in night’s stillness,
mistrusting the star that speaks of truth’s adventurous paths;
freedom from the anarchy of destiny
whole sails are weakly yielded to the blind uncertain winds,
and the helm to a hand ever rigid and cold as death.
3. Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world,
where movements are started through brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,
where figures wait with patience and obedience for the
master of show,
to be stirred into a mimicry of life.
Read the poem carefully and answer the following questions.
1. To whom does yout refer to in the poem? What poetic device is used here?
Your” refers to Tagore’s Motherland.
The poet shows his Motherland as a person: he imagines his country as having a head, a back, and eyes. Personification is the poetic device used here.
2. What do shackles of slumber refer to?
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet who lived from 1861 to 1941. At that time, India was ruled by the British Empire, and Indians were discriminated against, so he might have been influenced by experiences of bigotry and prejudice. Although Tagore was primarily a poet, he wrote in many genres and also created drawings, paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself. This may have influenced his writing, causing him to incorporate elements of musicality or visual images into his writing.
Beckoning call – indicating ,signallinghackles- restraints, handcuffs
slumber- sleep
Anarchy –chaos, revolution
Helm- controls
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:
2. Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
you fasten yourself in night’s stillness,
mistrusting the star that speaks of truth’s adventurous paths;
freedom from the anarchy of destiny
whole sails are weakly yielded to the blind uncertain winds,
and the helm to a hand ever rigid and cold as death.
3. Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet's world,
where movements are started through brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,
where figures wait with patience and obedience for the
master of show,
to be stirred into a mimicry of life.
Read the poem carefully and answer the following questions.
1. To whom does yout refer to in the poem? What poetic device is used here?
Your” refers to Tagore’s Motherland.
The poet shows his Motherland as a person: he imagines his country as having a head, a back, and eyes. Personification is the poetic device used here.
2. What do shackles of slumber refer to?
Basically shackles of slumber refers to inactivity. Tagore says his motherland is in slavery. Instead of looking forward, India sleeps with what Tagore calls "shackles of slumber," or time spent not thinking of her future. Instead, India is fastening herself "in night's stillness," meaning that the country is committed to the past and to the current situation of colonialism.
3. Who is controlling the ship? Cite evidence to support your response.
“Blind uncertain winds” control the sails. Here the poetic device used is metaphor where the motherland is compared to a ship. The poem refers to “the anarchy of destiny,” implying that there is no one guiding the ship’s destiny; then he describes the winds to which the sails are given up as “blind” and “uncertain”; the helm is also “yielded” to “a hand ever rigid and cold as Death” (line 4) The impact is to create a sense that the poet’s Motherland does not control its own destiny.
4. What kind of freedom Tagore wishes for his motherland?
His last wish for her motherland is the freedom from humiliation of living as slave in the hands of foreign invaders. He wants her to stop living like a puppet whose each and every movement is governed and controlled by the master of the show.
5. What is Freedom according to Tagore?
The poet is wishing that his country be free of the fear, the fear of oppression by its colonized rulers. According to him the freedom of fear is the real freedom. He wishes the country to be free of burden of the years it has been oppressed. The country has been tolerating enough and it can bear anymore.
6. Why does the poet say that people of his motherland are living in puppets world?
Then, Tagore asks for freedom from India living in a "puppet's world," by which he means a world in which India is controlled by other countries and forces as a puppet is controlled by a puppeteer. The movements are orchestrated through "brainless wires," meaning that England controls India without thinking and by following "mindless habits," meaning customs that are followed without reason. In this extended metaphor comparing India to a puppet show, figures, who are clearly Indians, wait obediently just to follow the master of the show, meaning their English rulers. Therefore, the Indians live "a mimicry of life," meaning an inauthentic life controlled by others.
7. What is message conveyed by the poet?
The word "freedom" is repeated throughout the poem to express the poet's deep wish for his country to be independent. The second wish he has for his motherland is the freedom from the burden of sense-less, illogical, and orthodox beliefs and traditions which don't let her see the future.
3. Who is controlling the ship? Cite evidence to support your response.
“Blind uncertain winds” control the sails. Here the poetic device used is metaphor where the motherland is compared to a ship. The poem refers to “the anarchy of destiny,” implying that there is no one guiding the ship’s destiny; then he describes the winds to which the sails are given up as “blind” and “uncertain”; the helm is also “yielded” to “a hand ever rigid and cold as Death” (line 4) The impact is to create a sense that the poet’s Motherland does not control its own destiny.
4. What kind of freedom Tagore wishes for his motherland?
His last wish for her motherland is the freedom from humiliation of living as slave in the hands of foreign invaders. He wants her to stop living like a puppet whose each and every movement is governed and controlled by the master of the show.
5. What is Freedom according to Tagore?
The poet is wishing that his country be free of the fear, the fear of oppression by its colonized rulers. According to him the freedom of fear is the real freedom. He wishes the country to be free of burden of the years it has been oppressed. The country has been tolerating enough and it can bear anymore.
6. Why does the poet say that people of his motherland are living in puppets world?
Then, Tagore asks for freedom from India living in a "puppet's world," by which he means a world in which India is controlled by other countries and forces as a puppet is controlled by a puppeteer. The movements are orchestrated through "brainless wires," meaning that England controls India without thinking and by following "mindless habits," meaning customs that are followed without reason. In this extended metaphor comparing India to a puppet show, figures, who are clearly Indians, wait obediently just to follow the master of the show, meaning their English rulers. Therefore, the Indians live "a mimicry of life," meaning an inauthentic life controlled by others.
7. What is message conveyed by the poet?
The word "freedom" is repeated throughout the poem to express the poet's deep wish for his country to be independent. The second wish he has for his motherland is the freedom from the burden of sense-less, illogical, and orthodox beliefs and traditions which don't let her see the future.
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