Packet 5: Tossup 16

One work in this collection asks if the reader has heard God’s “silent steps,” saying “He comes, comes, ever comes.” In one poem in this collection, the narrator meets a prisoner who has forged an “unbreakable (15[2])chain.” This collection ends with the refrain (15[1])“one salutation for thee” (15[1])after describing (15[2])the flight of a “flock of homesick cranes.” (15[6])A poem (15[1])in this collection (15[1])describes a place where (15[2])“knowledge is free” (15[4])and (*) “the mind (10[1])is without (10[2])fear,” (10[1])before the (10[1])narrator (10[1])asks, (10[1])“let my country (10[1])awake.” (10[2])W. (10[1]-5[1])B. (10[1])Yeats (10[2])wrote (-5[1])the introduction to this collection, which opens “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.” For 10 points, name this Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath (-5[1])Tagore. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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