Vocation - Worksheets

 CBSE Worksheet 01

Vocation

  1. What kind of life is led by the hawker, watchman and gardener? Write your answer in the context of poem Vocation.

  2. How did the child see a watchman? (Vocation)

  3. Why does the child wish to be a hawker, gardener or a watchman?

  4. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
    I can see through my open window the
    watchman walking up and down.
    The lane is dark and lonely, and the streetlamp
    stands like a giant with one red eye in its head.

    1. Who is 'I' in the above lines?
    2. What does the poet see from his window?
    3. How is the lane described in the above lines?

  5. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow: (1x3=3)
    When the gong sounds ten in the morning and
    I walk to school by our lane,
    Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles,
    crystal bangles!”
    There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no
    the road he must take, no place he must go to, no
    a time when he must come home.
    I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
    the road, crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!”

    1. Who used to cry bangles, crystal bangles?
    2. What was the routine of the hawker?
    3. Why did the child want to be a hawker?

  6. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
    I can see through the gate of that house the
    gardener digging the ground.
    He does what he likes with his spade, he soils
    his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to
    a task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.

    1. What was the gardener doing?
    2. What does the poet think about the gardener?
    3. Who is 'he' in the above lines?

CBSE Worksheet 01
Vocation

Solution

  1. The hawker, watchman and gardener are performing vocational tasks. They are leading their life the way they wants to. There is no restrictions on them.

  2. The child was told to sleep when he saw the watchman through an open window.

  3. The child wishes to be a hawker, gardener or a watchman as he feels envious of them because they are free.

    1. 'I' is the poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
    2. The poet sees a watchman in the street.
    3. The lane is dark and lonely.
    1. A hawker used to cry “bangles, crystal bangles” every morning on the road.
    2. The hawker was seen in the morning strolling on the roads. He never seems to be in a hurry. And he never was certain of the path he needs to take. He can take any road, go anywhere and return his home anytime.
    3. The child wanted to become a hawker so that he could spend his entire day on the road and he doesn't have to worry about the directions or the time to return to the home.
    1. The gardener was digging the soil.
    2. The poet thinks that the gardener is free and can do whatever he feels to do.
    3. 'He' is the gardener.