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There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no
road he must take, no place he must go to, no
time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”
a)Name the poem and who is the child here in the poem?
b)What wish does the child in the poem make?
c)Why the hawker is not in a hurry?
Answers
Answer:
Answer a) The poem's name is "Vocation" and the speaker here in this poem is a child eho wants complete freedom.
Answer b) The wish the child make in the poem is to be a hawker , a gardener and a watchman as he thinks throughout the poem that they have complete freedom
Answer c) The hawker is not in a hurry because there is no specific road he must take , no specific place he must go and no fixed time he must came home unlike the child. In this poem the child is not thinking about the harsh struggle and reality of the the hawker , the watchman and the gardener
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Answer:
a) name of the poem - vocation
b) The child in the poem wishes to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman.
c) When he looks at the hawker, he wishes to spend his day on the road crying “Bangles, crystal bangles!” He feels that there is nothing to hurry the hawker on. There is no road he must take, no place he must go to, and no fixed time when he must come home. These are the things that he cannot do himself and therefore, he wants to be a hawker so that he could do all these things.