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Tagore's Gitanjali opens with which central metaphor for the human-divine relation?Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's famous 'Where the mind is without fear' poem is which numbered poem in Gitanjali?Read the answer and worked solution →'Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high' continues 'Where':Read the answer and worked solution →Gitanjali was translated by Tagore from which language into English?Read the answer and worked solution →Gitanjali's dominant imagery includes:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's central theme of 'death' is figured in Gitanjali as:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's spiritual stance in Gitanjali emphasises:Read the answer and worked solution →In Gitanjali, devotion (bhakti) is manifested through:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's mysticism in Gitanjali is grounded in:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats's 1912 introduction to Gitanjali helped Tagore receive which honour the next year?Read the answer and worked solution →Arundhati Roy is best known for which Booker-winning novel?Read the answer and worked solution →Salman Rushdie's most-celebrated Booker-winning novel is:Read the answer and worked solution →Vikram Seth's epic post-Independence-set novel is:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's central image of the 'frail vessel' is repeatedly:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats described the universal appeal of Gitanjali in his role as:Read the answer and worked solution →The 'Where the mind is without fear' poem is conventionally read as a prayer for:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's dominant natural-element imagery in Gitanjali includes:Read the answer and worked solution →Within Tagore's spiritual idiom, songs and harps function chiefly as:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore wrote Gitanjali originally in:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore won the Nobel Prize in:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's 'Where the mind is without fear' is which poem of Gitanjali?Read the answer and worked solution →Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker in:Read the answer and worked solution →'The God of Small Things' was written by:Read the answer and worked solution →'A Suitable Boy' was written by:Read the answer and worked solution →R. K. Narayan's fictional town is:Read the answer and worked solution →Anita Desai writes primarily in which mode?Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's central image for human-divine relation is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's dominant imagery is light and:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore's central spiritual stance is:Read the answer and worked solution →Rule on these claims about GitanjaliRead the answer and worked solution →

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Tagore's Gitanjali opens with which central metaphor for the human-divine relation?

  1. A 'frail vessel' the divine empties and refills
  2. A blazing forge
  3. A crowded marketplace
  4. A locked garden
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Correct answer: A. A 'frail vessel' the divine empties and refills

1. The opening poem establishes the vessel as figure for human limitation. 2. The divine empties and refills it with 'fresh life.' 3. The image governs the collection's tension between finitude and grace. _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (1912 English edition) — "the metaphor of a "frail vessel" that the divine repeatedly empties and refills with "fresh life""_

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Tagore's famous 'Where the mind is without fear' poem is which numbered poem in Gitanjali?

  1. Poem 50
  2. Poem 1
  3. Poem 35
  4. Poem 100
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Correct answer: C. Poem 35

1. The freedom-poem is conventionally numbered 35 in Gitanjali. 2. It is widely anthologised in Indian school curricula. 3. It is read as a vision of cultural-national awakening. _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (1912 English edition) — "Poem 35 expresses Tagore's vision for human potential: "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high""_

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'Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high' continues 'Where':

  1. the rivers run clean
  2. knowledge is free
  3. songs are sung
  4. love is law
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Correct answer: B. knowledge is free

1. The cited line names the second clause directly. 2. The cumulative anaphora of 'Where' is the poem's structural device. 3. It builds a layered vision of freedom (intellectual, social, civic). _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (1912 English edition) — "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; / Where knowledge is free"_

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