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How would one give a detailed summary of the poem "Vocation" by Rabindranath Tagore?
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TAMARA K. H. | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
To write a detailed summary, whether it is of a poem, a chapter, an essay, or a book, we want to fist pick out the important details in the piece. It may be a little more difficult to summarize a poem as we must first understand the meaning and theme/themes of the poem, but not impossible. Below are a few ideas to help get you started.
Let's take a look at the first line as it is actually very revealing about the content of the poem: "When the gong sounds ten in the mourning and I walk to school by our lane." What does this one line tell you about the main speaker/character of the poem? We know that the speaker is walking to school; hence, the speaker must beschool-aged, right? The image of thegong sounding also paints a very revealing image. Where could the speaker be that a gong sounds in the morning? The speaker is certainly not in the US. But if we look at the poet's biography, we learn that Rabindranath Tagore was from Calcutta, now spelled Kolkata, India; hence, we can deduce that the speaker is school-aged and also lives in Calcutta, just like the poet. It may even be fair to say that the speaker is a reflection of the poet. Therefore, from just this one line, we can summarize that the poem is abouta school-aged boy or girl who lives in Calcutta.
The next line is also important as itestablishes the poem's whole underlying theme. The next thing the speaker describes is a "hawker," meaning a street vendor, who is calling out his wares, which happens to be "crystal bangles." The speaker sees the street vendor's liberty as he has "no place he must go to," like school, and no one demanding that he come home. Due to what the school-aged speaker imagines is the street vendor's liberty, the speaker imagines that he wishes he was a street vendor rather than a school-aged boy or girl. Throughout the rest of the poem, the speaker makes similar comments about the liberty of other grown ups he or she sees, like the gardener and the night watchmen. Hence, all in all, this poem reflects on a young person's eagerness to grow up, get a vocation, and experience what he or she perceives to be an adult's freedom. So if you were to continue to summarize the poem, you wouldcontinue to describe all of the vocations the speaker observes and how he or she sees the adults with these vocations as having more freedom than a school-aged person.
HOMEWORK HELP > RABINDRANATH TAGORE
How would one give a detailed summary of the poem "Vocation" by Rabindranath Tagore?
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Expert Answers
TAMARA K. H. | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
To write a detailed summary, whether it is of a poem, a chapter, an essay, or a book, we want to fist pick out the important details in the piece. It may be a little more difficult to summarize a poem as we must first understand the meaning and theme/themes of the poem, but not impossible. Below are a few ideas to help get you started.
Let's take a look at the first line as it is actually very revealing about the content of the poem: "When the gong sounds ten in the mourning and I walk to school by our lane." What does this one line tell you about the main speaker/character of the poem? We know that the speaker is walking to school; hence, the speaker must beschool-aged, right? The image of thegong sounding also paints a very revealing image. Where could the speaker be that a gong sounds in the morning? The speaker is certainly not in the US. But if we look at the poet's biography, we learn that Rabindranath Tagore was from Calcutta, now spelled Kolkata, India; hence, we can deduce that the speaker is school-aged and also lives in Calcutta, just like the poet. It may even be fair to say that the speaker is a reflection of the poet. Therefore, from just this one line, we can summarize that the poem is abouta school-aged boy or girl who lives in Calcutta.
The next line is also important as itestablishes the poem's whole underlying theme. The next thing the speaker describes is a "hawker," meaning a street vendor, who is calling out his wares, which happens to be "crystal bangles." The speaker sees the street vendor's liberty as he has "no place he must go to," like school, and no one demanding that he come home. Due to what the school-aged speaker imagines is the street vendor's liberty, the speaker imagines that he wishes he was a street vendor rather than a school-aged boy or girl. Throughout the rest of the poem, the speaker makes similar comments about the liberty of other grown ups he or she sees, like the gardener and the night watchmen. Hence, all in all, this poem reflects on a young person's eagerness to grow up, get a vocation, and experience what he or she perceives to be an adult's freedom. So if you were to continue to summarize the poem, you wouldcontinue to describe all of the vocations the speaker observes and how he or she sees the adults with these vocations as having more freedom than a school-aged person.
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