Vocation (poem)
by Rabindranath Tagore | |
Original title | বিচিত্র সাধ |
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Translator | Unknown |
First published in | 1909 |
Country |
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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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