Vocation
CBSE · Class 5 · English
Summary of Vocation for CBSE Class 5 English. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.
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Overview
Rabindranath Tagore's poem Vocation shows a child watching different workers during the day and at night. The child admires the freedom and busy lives of a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. The poem also shows how the child notices time, place, and work through simple scenes from daily life.
Key Concepts
Vocation means a person's work
Vocation means a person's work or job. The poem shows different kinds of work done by different people.
A hawker is a street vendor
A hawker is a street vendor who moves from place to place and cries out, 'Bangles, crystal bangles!' The hawker has no fixed schedule, no fixed road,
A gardener is seen digging
A gardener is seen digging the ground with a spade. The gardener can work as he likes, even if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet, and nobody scolds
A watchman walks up and down
A watchman walks up and down the dark and lonely lane at night with a lantern and does not go to bed early.
The street
The street-lamp is compared to a giant with one red eye in its head. This is a simile because it uses 'like' to make a comparison.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the main idea of the poem
- Identify the hawker, gardener, and watchman in the poem
- Learn the meanings of new words such as vocation, gong, lane, giant, spade, and lantern
- Notice the simile used for the street-lamp
- Recognize how the child imagines the life of each worker
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- NCERT Official — ncert.nic.in
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- CBSE Official — cbse.gov.in
- National Education Policy 2020 — education.gov.in
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