The poem ‘Vocation’ is written by the world famous poetRabindranath Tagore. He is a Nobel Prize winner for literature for is fantasticcollection of verses ‘Geethanjali’.
In this poem a school going boy is walking to school andcoming back in the afternoon. On the way he sees a hawker, a gardener and awatchman.
The boy goes to his school at ten o’clock in the morning. Onthe way he sees a hawker crying out ‘Bangles, Crystal Bangles!’ He wonderedthere is nothing to hurry him on, and there is not a fixed road he must travelthrough, and no time when he must get back home. By seeing his lucky life, theboy wished to become a hawker selling bangles like the one he saw.
When the boy comes back from the school at four in theafternoon, he sees a gardener digging the garden in the nearby house. He getshis shirts soiled, and get baked in the sun or gets wet. He sees that there isno one to control him like his mother controls him. He does whatever he likeswith his spade. Now he wished to be a gardener. So, he can do anything at thegarden.
In the night, after all the work, his mother sends him tothe bed, through his open window, he can see the watchman walking up and downthe street with a lantern in his hand. The street is dark and lonely and thestreet lamp stands like a giant with one red eye. He thinks he never goes tobed in his life. By seeing him, the child wished to become a watchman so he canprotect the lane from burglars.
From all these wishes, we can conclude that the child wantedto enjoy freedom. He wanted a life without worries. He wanted to come home atthe time he wished. So, we should all have wishes, sometimes we can fulfill it.