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The document discusses a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, where a child expresses a desire for freedom and the ability to choose various professions without the constraints of study or time. It highlights the child's admiration for a hawker, gardener, and watchman, each representing a life of simplicity and independence. Additionally, it provides a brief overview of Tagore's contributions to literature and his recognition as a Nobel laureate.

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Vocation

The document discusses a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, where a child expresses a desire for freedom and the ability to choose various professions without the constraints of study or time. It highlights the child's admiration for a hawker, gardener, and watchman, each representing a life of simplicity and independence. Additionally, it provides a brief overview of Tagore's contributions to literature and his recognition as a Nobel laureate.

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Vocation

20
WARM UP
Have you ever thought of what you would like to be when you grow
up? Discuss in the class.

Rabindranath Tagore wrote many


poems on and for children. in this
poem, the innocent child wants to do
as long as he does not
many things when he grows up-
have to study and has
whatever he likes. complete freedom to do
When the gong sounds ten in the
and Iwalk to school
morning
by our lane,
Every dayI meet the hawker
crying,
Bangles, crystal bangles!'
There is nothing to
hurry him on,
there is no road he
no place he
must take
must go to,
no time when he
must com home.
wish Iwere a
hawker,
spending my day on the
crying, 'Bangles, road,
crystal bangles
When at four in
the
Icome back from afternd
I can see school,
through the gate of
that house
156
gardene digging the ground.
the
what he likes with his spade,
Hedoes

soils his
clothes with dust,
he
him to task, if he
nobody takes
in the sun or gets wet.
Rets baked
were a gardener
wish I
garden the
digging away at
with nobody to stop me from digging.

Just as it gets dark in the evening


and my mother sends me to bed,
Ican 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.
Ine watchman swings his lantern

and walks with his shadow at his side,


andnever once goes to bed in his life.
WIsh I were a
watchman
walking the streets all night,
chasing the shadows with my lantern.
Rabindranath Tagore

the literature and music


iranath Tagore was apolymath. He is known to have shaped
à
literature. Tagore is the first
ngal. He introduced newprose and verse forms in Bengali
on-European
Tounded to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
He was also an artist. Tagore
which was published
theVVisva-Bharati versity. He is the author of the Gitanjali
on
14th August Unive of against the
aliawa 1910. He was a great patriot, and in 1919, as a mark protest
a had received trom the British
OWD. Bagh massacre,
dssacre, he renounced
r the knighthood he

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