Freedom

Freedom Poem by Ravindranath Tagore prescribed for Class IX English by APSCERT & TGSCERT syllabus. PPT prepared by M Padma Lalitha Sharada of GHS Malakpet under guidance of Smt. C B Nirmala Madam.

1. Freedom
- Rabindranath Tagore

3. About the poet
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941) is one of
the best known Indian
writers, who wrote
both in his mother
tongue Bangla and in
English.

4. He was a poet, playwright, novelist,
painter, educator and musician.

5. He translated a collection of his poems,
‘Gitanjali’, which was published in 1912.

6. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature.

7. He is the author of the Indian National
Anthem

8. as well as the National Anthem of
Bangladesh.

9. Freedom

10. Freedom from fear is the freedom
Freedom from fear is the freedom

11. I claim for you my motherland!

12. Freedom from the burden of the ages,
bending your head,

13. Breaking your back,
blinding your eyes to the beckoning call
of the future;

14. Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
You fasten yourself in night's stillness,

15. Mistrusting the star that speaks of
truth's adventurous paths;

16. Freedom from the anarchy of destiny

17. Whole sails are weakly yielded to the
blind uncertain winds,

18. And the helm to a hand ever rigid
and cold as death.

19. Freedom from the insult of dwelling
in a puppet's world,

20. Where movements are started through
brainless wires,
repeated through mindless habits,

21. Where figures wait with patience
and obedience for the master of show,

22. To be stirred into a mimicry of life.

23. Smt. Nirmala
Madam
Sharada