2. SECTION-I : LANGUAGE STUDY
Q-1. (A) (i) Language study : ( Simple Activities) 04 Marks
(ii) Language Study : (Middle Level Activities) 02 Marks
(B) Language study : ( Challenging Activities) 04 Marks
SECTION- II : TEXTUAL PASSAGES
Q-2 (A) and (B) Textual passages or Comprehension. 10+10=20 Marks.
SECTION-III : POETRY
Q-3 (A) Poem for Comprehension. 05 Marks
(B) Appreciation of Poem 05 Marks
SECTION-IV : NON- TEXTUAL PASSAGES
Q-4 (A) Non- textual passage for comprehension : 10 Marks
(B) Summary of passage given in Q-4 (A) 05 Marks
SECTION –V : WRITING SKILLS
Q-5 Letter Writing. Formal or Informal 05 Marks
Q-6 (A) Information transfer
Verbal to Non-verbal OR Non- verbal to Verbal 05 Marks
(B) Views and counterviews OR Speech 05 Marks
SECTION-VI : CREATIVE WRITING
Q-7 (A) Expansion of Proverbs/Maxims/Quotations/ Slogans OR News Report 05 Marks
(B) Developing a story / Narrating an experience related to the given beginning/end 05 Marks
3. Introduction of Poem 1.1 Where the mind is without fear
1. Where the mind is without fear is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore before India’s
Independence.
2. The Original Bengali language poem was published in 1910 collection Gitanjali.
3. IN 1920 Rabindranath Tagore translated his collection in English edition.
4. Gitanjali made him win the Nobel prize in literature. He was the first non- European to
win the Nobel prize.
5. Rabindranath Tagore is the only known person who has written the national anthem for
three different countries India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
6. This poem is one of his vastly read and discussed poem.
7. Tagore lived during the time when India was ruled by the British, besides political
freedom from British , Tagore also appeals to God for social , educational and economic
freedom for the people of India.
5. • Sonnet: It is type of poem having 14 lines.
• Epic: Along poem, often mythical.
• Limerick: A 5-line short funny poem with rhyme scheme aabba.
• Lyric: A song like poem.
• Ballad: A short story poem with a message.
• Humorous: A poem written just to create humour.
• Elegy: A sad poem, lamenting the death of a loved one.
• Idyll: A poem set in a picturesque, rustic background.
• Free verse: A poem without no uniformity or rhyme, rhythm.
7. 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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
15. FIGURES OF SPEECH
A figure of speech is an expression that uses words to mean something different from their
ordinary meaning . Figures of speech are important parts of poetry. They are used to bring
images into our minds , to make the lines musical or to draw our attention.
In this poem we can experience four different figures of speech such as Metaphor,
Personification, Repetition and Alliteration.
1. Metaphor: Metaphor is implied simile . There are no use of words like “as” or “like “. To
show the likeness between two things. e.g. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it’s
way.
2. Personification: In personification, things or even ideas are treated as if they were “
persons”. e.g. Where tireless striving stretches it’s arm towards perfections.
3. Repetition: It is the use of same word in a line repeatedly. e.g. Where the mind is without
fear , where the knowledge is free.
4. Alliteration: This consists of the repetition of the same letter or syllable at the beginning of
two or more words. e.g. The head is held high.
16. THANK YOU ,
Dear Students for attending my lecture Sincerely.
I hope that everybody might have understood the poem, In case
of any help you can contact me .
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