Original title Unknown First published in Unknown Language Bengali | Translator Unknown Country India Subject(s) Child thoughts | |
Vocation is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a vocation.
Plot
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.
References
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