Where the mind is without fear by rabindranath tagore 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. part a what is a theme of this poem? people who are free to think are free to act. actions speak louder than words. freedom of thought may be dangerous. there is a price to pay for freedom. part b how does the speaker use figurative language to develop the theme described in part a? "by narrow domestic walls; " he uses metaphor to explain the importance of guarded thinking. "where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; " he uses personification to explain how the freedom to think leads to action. "where the world has not been broken up into fragments; " he uses imagery to emphasize the struggles of a broken mind. "into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; " he uses metaphor to compare the active mind to a dry desert.