Question

Why is the poet in the poem merchant travelling to strange lands.

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Answer:

I love this poem written from the view point of a child that begins more like a game between the mother and child and goes on to describe the treasures in the natural world in beautiful words.

The child seems exasperated by the father who is always writing, this exasperation is a recurring theme, perhaps Tagore's own understanding of how his children felt at his preoccupation with his writing. After all a writer doesn't return home to his family at 5 pm the muse will not be tied by time and Tagore was a prolific writer.