Question

why does the poet say I wish I were a hawker ( poem vocation)​

Answer 1

Answer:

The speaker in the poem feels that there is nothing to hurry the hawker. There is no fixed road he must travel by, no place that he must go to, and no time when he must get back home. The speaker feels he is lucky and hence he wishes to be a hawker

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Answer 2

Answer:

The child in the poem wishes to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. 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. Next, he wishes he were a gardener because a gardener does what he likes with his spade.

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