Vocation Class notes | class 6th English Honeysuckle

Vocation Poem Introduction

This poem is written by Rabindranath Tagore and displays a child’s yearning and wishes. It speaks about how a child is unaware of the harshness connected to daily life and gets attracted to various things in life.
 

Vocation Poem Summary

In this poem a child speaks about his wishes and attractions. It shows the state of his wavering but innocent mind. The poem is about how a child gets attracted to the ways of people around him and finds different curiosities and attractions in their lives. He is not aware of the tough routine they have to go through. It also shows his innocence and lack of worldly sense.

At three different points of time during the day he notices different hawkers and gets impressed by their free choices and independent way of life.

When the gong sounds ten in the first part of the day, he goes to his school and sees the vendor crying “Bangles, precious stone bangles!” and he wishes he could be a peddler and move freely anywhere just like him.

At four in the evening, while returning from school at the same time, he sees the plant specialist burrowing the ground and he wanted to be a nursery worker. He wished to play in the dust.

At the point when night falls his mom sends him to bed and he sees the guardian through the window and he wishes he could be a gatekeeper so that he could also move here and there in the streets at night freely