Vocation | |
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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 |
ISBN | 81-8332-175-5 |
"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]
The poem describes a child's longing for the immense 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 a great 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 a skillful gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls his cruel mother sends him to bed and he sees an ever alert watchman through the window and he wishes he could be a watchman.[2]