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How does Rabindranath Tagore want his country to be?
He wants his country to move to a state where knowledge is free and individuals are free from the bondage of narrow ideas set up by the society. He considers people to be slave of bad habits that is affecting their life as well as the nation’s life.
What is Tagore’s vision of his country?
Speaking at the centenary celebrations of Visva Bharati University, he said that Tagore’s vision is the essence of self-reliant India. Atmanirbhar Bharat is a campaign to empower India and to bring prosperity to the world.
What did Rabindranath Tagore do for India?
He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, helped introduce Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India.
What are reason and dead habits compared to?
In the poem Where the Mind is Without Fear, the poet compares ‘reason’ to a clear stream and ‘dead habits’ to a dry desert. Reason or logical thinking is the thing that makes a nation progressive. On the other hand, ‘dead habits’ (superstitions) make a nation stagnant.
What is Tagore’s vision of freedom expressed in the poem?
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.
What is Tagore’s vision for his country as expressed in song 35 of Gitanjali?
Throughout Gitanjali, therefore, we feel the poet’s intense spiritual wistfulness as he constantly yearns to come face to face with God, whose presence he senses in the physical manifestations around him as well as within him.
What kind of freedom does Tagore desire for his country?
As apparent in the poem, the poet did not want merely political freedom for his countrymen. Rather, he wanted a kind of spiritual freedom, a sense of self dignity. He wanted people to be fearless, knowledgeable, truthful, active, broad-minded and logical.