A Short Summary of the Poem "Where the Mind is without Fear" by Rabindranath Tagore
Where the Mind is without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore About the Author: Rabindranath Tagore contributed greatly to giving a modern India a place on the world literary scene. He was a multi-faceted personality. He was a poet, a dramatist, a short story writer and a novelist. He was also a philosopher and a nation builder. He wrote primary in Bengali but translated his own works into English. His important translated volumes of poetry are Gitanjali and The Gardener. The songs of Gitanjali are mainly devotional poems in the Indian tradition. His Crescent Moon is a collection intended primary for children but it has a powerful appeal also for adults. The Gardener is mainly love poetry. Tagore's translations of his Bengali poems are in free verse. Tagore draws most of his imagery from Indian philosophy and spiritualism. Summary of the Poem: Rabindranath Tagore's poem If is a part of a larger poem The Heaven of Freedom which is one of his mo...