Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere 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.

Analysis

                Tagore has created an imaginary country where people can live without any discrimination and without any boarders which separate one nation with other. Where people feel free and fearless to express their idea, where people speak truth, where everyone is united and sincere with others, where new ideas are no disturbed by the old practice and these things are the key to awake a nation. Tagore is against the division of nation by the narrow conception of nationalism. These concept of nationalism forced us to create boundaries around us and which leads toward war between nations.

                The poem might be trying to show the value of truth, knowledge, unite, thought, honor, and freedom. Id all these characteristics are found in the inhabitants of a country then their country itself would become heaven. The poet not only praying or expressing some sort of affection for his country but he says that this world is broken into number of pieces depending on caste, color and creed.