CLASS VI POEM VOCATION

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 Q1. Who is the speaker in the poem? Who are the people the speaker meets? What are they doing? 

Ans. The speaker of the poem is a school-going child. Every day he happens to meet the hawker who sells bangles, the gardener who digs the garden and a watchman who keeps a close watch on the streets the whole night. 

Ans. What wishes does the child in the poem make? Why does the child want to be a hawker, a gardener, or a watchman? Pick out the lines in each stanza, which tell us this.

Ans. The child in the poem has an innocent mind. He watches all the people around him keenly. He strongly wishes if he could lead his life in his own way and enjoy the freedom just as a hawker, a gardener or a watchman. 

He observes that the hawker has nothing to hurry him, there is no fixed road he must take, no definite route he must go to and no allocated time when he must return home. Seeing this liberty, the young boy wishes he could become a hawker and enjoy all these things too. 

Secondly, the boy meets a gardener who is busy digging away the garden with his spade. He soils his clothes with dust and dirt and gets tanned, sweaty in the sun or wet in the rain, yet nobody scolds him for doing such acts  Seeing this, he wishes that he could become a gardener so that nobody would scold him for digging the garden or for soiling his clothes in dust or even getting sweaty due to sunshine. 

Thirdly, the boy sees a watchman through his open window who walks up and down in the lonely dark lane and the street-lamp would stand like a giant with one red eye in it’s head. He observes how the watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side and he never goes to bed in his life. The young child wishes he could work like a watchman so that even he could walk the streets all night and chase the shadows with his lantern.

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