Vocation (poem)

Vocation
	by Rabindranath Tagore
Original title	বিচিত্র সাধ
Translator	Unknown
First published in	1909
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Subject(s)	Child thoughts
Publisher	Original - Unknown.; Translated - Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.
Published in English	2006
Media type	Original - Unknown.; Translated - Hardcover
Lines	Original - Unknown; Translated - 36
Pages	Translated - 40-41

Vocation (Bengali: বিচিত্র সাধ) is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a vocation.^[1]

Plot

The poem describes a child's longing for the freedom he sees in the lives of those around him. When the gong sounds ten in the morning, he walks to his school and sees the hawker crying "Bangles, crystal bangles!" and he wishes he could be a hawker. At four in the afternoon, while coming back from school, he sees the gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls his mother sends him to bed and he sees the watchman through the window and he wishes he could be a watchman.^[2]

References

↑ Macmillan Reference USA. USA: Macmillan. 1976. ISBN 978-0-02-865993-0.
↑ Daruwalla, Keki N. (2006). Poetry Magic. Ratna Sagar P.Ltd. pp. 40–41. ISBN 81-8332-175-5.

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[1] Macmillan Reference USA. USA: Macmillan. 1976. ISBN 978-0-02-865993-0.

[2] Daruwalla, Keki N. (2006). Poetry Magic. Ratna Sagar P.Ltd. pp. 40–41. ISBN 81-8332-175-5.