Question

Read the poem.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

by Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore was an Indian writer who lived during the time that Great Britain ruled over the country of India, one of its colonies. In this poem, he expresses his views on how his people have reacted to that control and his hopes for their future.

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.

Part A

What is one way that imagery affects the meaning of the poem?

A.) It emphasizes the responsibilities of freedom.
B.) It evokes feelings of confusion and resistance.
C.) It stresses on the hopelessness of resisting authority.
D.) It conveys the idea that an open mind has limitless potential.

Part B

Which phrase from the poem best illustrates the answer in Part A?

A.)"dreary desert sand"
B.) "ever-widening thought"
C.) "clear stream of reason"
D.) "led forward by thee"

Answer 1

Part A is A Part B is C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Part A

The way that imagery affects the poem is by emphasizing the responsabilities of freedom.

The correct answer is A. The speaker names all the conditions that he thinks a free country and society has to have in order to awake, to break free.

Part B

The phrase from the poem that best illustrates the answer in part A is C: "clear stream of reason".