KSEEB Class 9 · English (2nd language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
The Song of Freedom
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 9 English.
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About the author
Subramania Bharati (1882–1921), Tamil poet and freedom fighter. Bharati's "The Song of Freedom" celebrates independence with call for equality, end of caste pride, and service as worship.
Summary
The poet celebrates the nation's freedom with song and dance - joy after united struggle against foreign rule.
The poet celebrates the nation's freedom with song and dance - joy after united struggle against foreign rule.
Gone are caste-born pride, foreign might, passive subservience, and tricksters who divided Indians.
Gone are caste-born pride, foreign might, passive subservience, and tricksters who divided Indians.
Blow the conch - declare equality universal; freedom belongs to all, not a few elites.
Blow the conch - declare equality universal; freedom belongs to all, not a few elites.
Lie and fraud must die; good people should rise; ruin seizes the wicked.
Lie and fraud must die; good people should rise; ruin seizes the wicked.
Respect peasants and workers; end greed and gluttony; be needy if needed but not greedy.
Respect peasants and workers; end greed and gluttony; be needy if needed but not greedy.
Work is worship - widen thought and action, stay united, serve the Almighty through national service.
Work is worship - widen thought and action, stay united, serve the Almighty through national service.
Hard words & meanings
| subservience | excessive willingness to obey rulers |
| trickster | one who cheats to divide people |
| conch | traditional Indian instrument blown at auspicious moments |
| peasant | agricultural worker of the land |
| glutton | one who excess in food or consumption |
| immoral | not conforming to accepted standards of goodness |
| patriotic | having devotion to one's nation |
| universal | applicable to everyone everywhere |
| prosper | flourish economically and socially |
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