Question

Vocation
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles,
crystal bangles!"
gong : a flat metal
bell rung to draw
people's attention
by
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!”
When at four in the afternoon I come back from
the school,
I can see through the gate that house the
gardener digging the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade, he soils
his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to
task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the
garden with nobody to stop me from digging.
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my
mother sends me to bed,
What does the
hawker advertise
aloud?
takes someone to
task : scolds and
corrects
ving :
I can see through my open window the
watchman walking up and down
The lane is dark and lonely, and the street
lamp stands like a giant with one red eye
in its head.
The watchman swings his lantern and walks
with his shadow at his side, and never once
goes to bed in his life.
lled an
one-eyed-giant :
reference to a
character from Greek
Mythology (Homer's
Odyssey)
Who is scolded if he
gets dirty?
What accompanies
the watchman?
chasing the
shadows: following
an imaginary goal/
target
-e of
I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night,
chasing the shadows with my lantern.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Answer 1

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