Where the Mind Is Without Fear

                                                                                 Rabindranath Tagore, India (1861 – 1941)
Summary in English

"Where the Mind is Without Fear" is one of the influential and persuasive poems by the Nobel Prize winner poet, Rabindranath Tagore. The poem focuses on true patriotism of the world so that human beings live, work and help with light in the absence of darkness, discrimination, fear and violence. It also represents that peaceful and happy life remains as if there is peaceful mind.

The poet makes a satire looking at full of violence, fear, discrimination, hatred throughout the modern world. Therefore, by poem he wishes all people and world to be without any kind of darkness, fear, war and discrimination. So, he wishes and wants to go to or to be in such world where there is love, wisdom, light, peace and freedom. Anyway, he wishes to change the face of present world.

The poet reflects that the present world is full of darkness, evils, fear and injustice. So, this world is like hell. Fear has ruled over people's mind. The knowledge possessed by human beings is not free from such fear and violence. Inequality, conflict, war, selfishness, jealousy, violence and corruption have dominated in the human society as well as all over the world. In such world, self-respect, dignity, love, help, peace, equality and justice have been made shadow. The poet further says that human beings have broken the world into different parts and they take other people as their enemies. Therefore, there is no existence of harmious relation among the people of the world as well as peaceful world itself. The concept of humanity, spiritualism and brotherhood feeling has been disappeared in this world.

On the other hand, the poet wishes to see and be the world with lightness, peace and freedom. In such world, people start loving each other, help and united each other. They take all people equal and behave with justice. There is no fear, war and discrimination rather knowledge is free and constructive. He wants to see the world of freedom, peace, humanity, justice, unity and co-operation. For that, the poet prays to God to reform his society, country and the world as the heaven of freedom.