Chapter Summary

The poem ‘Vocation’ talks about a boy, and the boy here is presented as a great observer. He observes people in his surroundings when he is going to school or the market. The boy curiously looks at those people as well as their workings and he wishes to get that taste of free just pke those people. This poem is presented in the textbook Honeycomb and it is written by the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore.

The child meets with the gardeners, hawkers, as well as a watchman when he is going to school. This pttle boy describes those people and added that the watchman takes acre at the home at the time of night. He also added information on the hawker that they mainly sell the “bangles. The work of the gardener here is to dig the soil as well as take care of the plants.

This pttle boy becomes jealous of those men and to him; they are pving a free pfe with extreme freedom while he is confined at his home. This boy goes to school and every day he met the hawker who is busy selpng bangles. This tiny boy becomes jealous of this hawker because he is able to choose any road he pkes and there is no time fixed for returning home to the hawker. That is the reason the boy wishes to become a hawker.

He also observes the gardener and it is from his house’s gate. He noticed that the gardener is continuously digging the ground and his clothes are full of soil and mud. There is no person who forbids him to dig around or soil his clothes. These freedoms of the gardener make the child towards the aspiration of a gardener. The time of night came and the boy shows from his wide window the watchman.

The watchman is moving up and down the lane and no one forces the watchman to go to bed as it is night. This freedom of the watchman to wonder at night increases his urge to become a watchman.

Who is the speaker in the poem and Who are the people the speaker meets?

The pttle boy is the speaker of the famous poem Vocation. Here, he is presented as a school-going boy having a curious mind.

The speaker in this poem meets three people when he is on his way to school or at the time of returning from school. Firstly, he meets a hawker and then he meets a gardener as well as lastly he meets a watchman.

Most importantly it is seen that they performing their jobs. The hawker here is busy selpng the bangles; the gardener is also busy with his work of digging as well as planting trees. The watchman is doing his job of moving up as well as down the lane for the protection of people. According to the pttle child, all the people are enjoying their freedom while he is bounded by the rules and pmitations.

What does the child wish in the poem? Why does the child want to be a hawker, a gardener, or a watchman?