Round 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 chain.” This collection ends with the refrain “one salutation for thee” after describing the flight of a “flock of homesick cranes.” (15[1])A poem in this collection describes a place where “knowledge is free” and (*) “the mind is without fear,” before the narrator asks, “let my country awake.” (10[1])W. (10[1])B. Yeats wrote 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 Tagore. ■END■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary