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VOCATION
Rabindranath Tagore
ABOUT THE POET
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941)sobriquet Gurudev, was a
Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music Author of
Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became
the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In
translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly
mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and otherworldly dress earned him a
prophet-like reputation in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry"
remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and
verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby
freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
EVERYDAY AT TEN IN THE MORNING HE WALKS TO THE
SCHOOL,HE SEES THE HAWKER
The boy wants to become a hawker because
there is nothing to hurry him on, no road he
must take, no place he must go to, or no time
he must come home.So the boy wishes to
become a hawker spending his daytime in the
road
THE HAWKER
A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily
transported; the term is roughly synonymous with peddler or
costermonger. In most places where the term is used, a hawker
sells items or food that are native to the area. Whether stationary
or mobile, hawkers often advertise by loud street cries or chants,
and conduct banter with customers, so to attract attention and
enhance sales.
WHEN AT FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON HE COMES BACK FROM THE SCHOOL
HE SEES THE GARDNER
The boy wants to become a gardener because he likes what the
gardener does with his spade, he soils his cloth with dust, nobody
takes him to task even if he gets baked in the sun or get wet. There is
nobody to stop him from digging. So the boy wishes to become a
gardener
THE GARDENER
A gardener is someone who does work on gardens. Some
people who are gardeners work only on their own gardens.
Other gardeners earn money for their work by working on
other people's gardens. The work they do for other people
includes things like watering plants, cutting plants, and
trimming grass.
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JUST AS IT GETS DARK IN THE EVENING AND MOTHER SENDS HIM TO BED
HE SEES THE WATCHMAN THROUGH THE WINDOW
The boy wishes to become a watchman because when the lane
is dark, and the street lamp stands with a one red eye in his
head. The watchman swings his lantern and walks with the
shadow in his side, and never once goes to bed in his life. So
the boy wishes to become a watchman, chasing a shadow with
his lantern
THE WATCHMAN
A Watchman is a person who is paid to protect property, assets, or
people. Security guards are usually privately and formally employed
civilian personnel. Security officers are generally uniformed and act to
protect property by maintaining a high visibility presence to deter illegal
and inappropriate actions, observing (either directly, through patrols, or
by watching alarm systems or video cameras) for signs of crime, fire or
disorder; then taking action and reporting any incidents to their client and
emergency services as appropriate
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SUMMARY
The poem describes a child's longing for the freedom he sees in the lives of those
around him. When the gong sounds ten in the morning, he walks to his school
and sees the hawker crying "Bangles, crystal bangles!" and he wishes he could be
a hawker. At four in the afternoon, while coming back from school, he sees the
gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls
his mother sends him to bed and he sees the watchman through the window and
he wishes he could be a watchman.
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