Gujarat Board Textbook Solutions Class 6 English Honeysuckle Poem 7 Vocation

Gujarat Board GSEB Class 6 English Textbook Solutions Honeysuckle Poem 7 Vocation Words Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers, Notes Pdf.

Gujarat Board Textbook Solutions Class 6 English Honeysuckle Poem 7 Vocation

GSEB Class 6 English Vocation Text Book Questions and Answers

Your partner and you may now as able to answer these questions:

Question 1.
Who is the speaker in the poem ? Who are the people the speaker meets ? What are they doing?
Answer:
A schoolchild is the speaker in the poem. The speaker first meets a bangle seller who is selling bangles. He then meets a gardener who is digging the garden. Lastly, he meets the watchman who is walking up and down the street with a lantern in his hand guarding the houses.

Question 2.
What wishes does the child in the poem make? Why does the child want to be a hawker, a gardener, or a watchman?
Pick out the lines in each stanza., which tell us this.
Answer:
The child in the poem wishes to be a bangle seller, a gardener and a watchman as he feels that these people are free to do what they want.

• I wish I were a hawker, spending my day on the road crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles.”
• I wish I were a gardener, digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.
• I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.

Question 3.
From the way the child envies the hawker, the gardener and the watchman, we can guess that there are many things the child has to do, or must not do. Make a list of all the dos and don’t that the child doesn’t like. The first line is done for you.
Answer:

Now, add to the list your own complaints about the things you have to do or must not do.
The child must do the following things:

• Have meals on time.
• Drink milk every day.
• Get ready for school on time.
• Finish homework on time.

The child must not do the following things:

• He must not disobey his elders.
• He must not talk to strangers in the absence of his parents.
• He must not watch T.V. for a long time.
• He must not waste his time.

Question 4.
Like the child in the poem, you perhaps have your own wishes for yourself. Talk to your friend, using “I wish I were…”
Answer:
(1) I wish I were a butterfly flying over the beautiful flowers.
(2) I wish I were a stream that flowed past happily.
(3) I wish I were a little baby who laughed for no reason.
(4) I wish I were an ice-cream seller selling delicious ice creams.

Find out the different kinds of work done by the people in your neighbourhood. Make different cards for different kinds of work. You can make the card colourful with the pictures of the persons doing the work.

This needs to be crafted and done by the students.

GSEB Class 6 English Vocation Additional Important Questions and Answers

Select the most appropriate options as answers and complete the following sentences:

Question 1.
The poem ‘Vocation’ is written by
A. Peter Dixon
B. E-yeh-Shure
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. Eleanor Farjeon
Answer:
C. Rabindranath Tagore

Question 2.
‘When the gong sounds ten’ means ………….
A. ‘When ten people gather.’
B. ‘When the clock strikes ten.’
C. ‘When ten sounds are created.’
D. None of the three above
Answer:
B. ‘When the clock strikes ten.’

Question 3.
The poet wishes to be a hawker because’…
A. he has nothing to hurry about.
B. he has no specific route to follow.
C. he has no fixed time to maintain.
D. All the three above
Answer:
D. All the three above

Question 4.
What could be the approximate school- hours of the poet?
A. 10:30 to 5 : 30
B. 10 : 15 to 3 : 45
C. 9 : 30 to 3 : 30
D. 7 : 10 to 12 :10
Answer:
B. 10 : 15 to 3 : 45

Question 5.
Even if the gardener gets baked in the sun or gets wet…
A. nobody scolds him.
B. he soils his clothes.
C. he leaves digging soon.
D. All of the three above
Answer:
A. nobody scolds him.

Question 6.
The child in the poem does not express his wish to be a ………
A. hawker.
B. washerman.
C. gardener.
D. watchman.
Answer:
B. washerman.

Question 7.
What is the street-lamp compared with?
A. A giant with one red eye in his head.
B. A dragon with an eye on its head.
C. A dinosaur with red eyes.
D. A fire-bug in a dark night.
Answer:
A. A giant with one red eye in his head.

Question 8.
The watchman takes rounds within his hand.
A. a wand
B. a lantern
C. a torch
D. a whistle
Answer:
B. a lantern

Question 9.
The lane is lonely because ……….
A. it is night.
B. there is terrible heat outside.
C. policeman is taking rounds.
D. it is cursed.
Answer:
A. it is night.

Question 10.
The poet wishes to walk the street all night with his lantern so that ………
A. he can find his way.
B. he can follow his shadows.
C. he can help somebody.
D. None of these three
Answer:
B. he can follow his shadows.

Question 11.
The poet goes to school at …….. o’clock.
A. seven
B. eight
C. ten
D. eleven
Answer:
C. ten

Question 12.
The bangles of the hawker are…
A. durable.
B. colourful.
C. crystal.
D. cheap.
Answer:
C. crystal.

Question 13.
The hawker is in no hurry at all because ………
A. he has no other road to take.
B. he has no other place to go.
C. he has no fixed time to reach home.
D. All of these three
Answer:
D. All of these three

Question 14.
The poet wishes to be …………
A. a hawker.
B. a gardener.
C. a watchman.
D. All of these three
Answer:
D. All of these three

Question 15.
The poet comes back from his school at ………..
A. 3 p.m.
B. 4 p.m.
C. 5 p.m.
D. 6 p.m.
Answer:
B. 4 p.m.

Question 16.
The clothes of the gardener are ………..
A. dirty.
B. dusty.
C. wet.
D. well-ironed.
Answer:
B. dusty.

Question 17.
How does the poet watch the gardener doing his work?
A. Looking through a window.
B. Looking from a balcony.
C. Looking through the gate.
D. Peeping through a hole.
Answer:
C. Looking through the gate.

Question 18.
The meaning of the line …………. he gets baked in the sun’ is ………….
A. …. he suffers in the scorching heat.
B. …. he enjoys working under the sun.
C. …. he hates the terrible heat.
D. …. he works unwillingly under the sun.
Answer:
A. …. he suffers in the scorching heat.

Question 19.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the line …………. the street-lamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head’.
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Synecdoche
D. Metonymy
Answer:
B. Simile

Complete the incomplete sentences :

Question 1.
……….in the morning and I walk to school.
Answer:
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school.

Question 2.
The street hawker has no time…………
Answer:
The street hawker has no time when he must go home.

Question 3.
……….. spending my day in the road.
Answer:
I wish I were a hawker spending my day in the road.

Question 4.
………..with his spade.
Answer:
He does what he likes with his spade.

Question 5.
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother ………..
Answer:
Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed.

Question 6.
I can see through my open window the watchman ………..
Answer:
I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down.

Question 7.
The lane is ………..
Answer:
The lane is dark.

Question 8.
The watchman swings ………..
Answer:
The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life.

Answer the following questions An brief:

Question 1.
According to the poet what does the watchman do with his lantern ?
Answer:
According to the poet, the watchman swings his lantern by his side chasing away the shadows with his lantern.

Question 2.
What is common in all the three vocations that the poet wants to pursue?
Answer:
The people following all the three vocations are lining their lives without any restrictions. The speaker of the poem too wants to live such a life.

Question 3.
Does the watchman ever sleep? If yes, when?
Answer:
Yes. The watchman sleeps during the daytime as he is busy working at night.

Question 4.
What feelings does the poet have for the hawker and why?
Answer:
The poet envies the hawker as he is in no hurry and lives the life of freedom.

Question 5.
Why does the poet wish to become like a watchman?
Answer:
The poet doesn’t like going to bed early. He wants to walk freely in the dark and lonely streets chasing the shadows all night.

Question 6.
What is the hawker selling?
Answer:
The hawker is selling bangles.

Question 7.
When does the poet meet the hawker every day?
Answer:
The poet meets the hawker every day when he walks to school by their lane at ten in the morning.

Question 8.
How does the poet want to spend his day after observing the hawker ?
Answer:
Observing the hawker, the poet wants to spend his day in the road.

Question 9.
For what, according to the poet, does nobody take the gardener to task?
Answer:
According to the poet, nobody takes the gardener to task if he soils his clothes with dust or gets baked in the sun or gets wet.

Question 10.
With what, according to the poet, does the watchman walk?
Answer:
According to the poet, the watchman walks with a lantern in his hand.

Question 11.
What does the poet want to do after observing the watchman walking?
Answer:
After observing the watchman walking, the poet wants to walk the street all night, chasing the shadows with his lantern.

Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each:

Question 1.
Why does the poet wish to be a hawker ?
Answer:
Generally, all children have a common dislike for school and they want to enjoy free life. Here the poet while going to school, observes a hawker shouting to sell his bangles. He has no restrains, i.e., no hurry, no specific place to go and no fixed time to reach home. The poet likes such a free life and wants to be a hawker.

Question 2.
Why does the poet express his desire to be a gardener?
Answer:
The poet observes a gardener digging the ground. He is working on his own whim. Nobody scolds him whether he soils his clothes or is out in the scorching sun or gets wet in the rain. He is all free and the child-poet wants to live such a free life without any restrictions.

Question 3.
Why does the poet wish to be a watchman?
Answer:
The child-poet observes a watchman taking rounds. He has a lantern in his hand and walks with his shadow at his side. He keeps awake the whole night. The child does not want to go to bed early as his mother usually sends him. He likes to enjoy taking rounds whole night like the watchman.

Question 4.
What of the gardener attracts the poet a lot?
Answer:
The child-poet has so many restrictions to move about and doing the jobs on his own. He observes that the gardener has a spade and he does what he thinks fit. His clothes are also dusty and nobody scolds him whether he moves about in scorching sun or pouring rain.

Question 5.
What of the watchman attracts the poet a lot?
Answer:
The child floes not like to go to bed early as his mother makes him do. He wants to keep awake whole night taking rounds with a lantern in his hand. He wants to enjoy the night on his own.

Answer the following questions in four to five sentences :

Question 1.
What is the tone of the poem ‘Vocation’ ?
Answer:
The poem ‘Vocation’ expresses suppressed desires of a child. Generally a child dislikes to go to school and follow other instructions at home. He hates restrictions and wants to live like a free bird. Here he wants to be a hawker who has no time to keep and no fixed place to go. He wants to be a gardener so that he can move about freely and do jobs on his own whim and like a watchman not compelled to go to bed early and enjoy taking rounds the whole night.

Question 2.
Why is the poet impressed by the vocations of a hawker, gardener and a watchman ?
Answer:
The poet envies the hawker, gardener and the watchman and wants to be in their place because of the freedom they enjoy in their lives. The poet does not enjoy his life which is routine and predictable…

He is interested in being a hawker for he can move freely from one place to another without any hurry of reaching a particular place on time. He is interested in being a gardener because a gardener can soil his clothes, get baked in the sun or get wet in the rain. Nobody scolds him for all these things. He is interested in being a watchman because he is free to walk in the dark and deserted lanes with a lantern in his hand. He is never asked to go to bed early.

Read the following stanzas and s answer the questions given below them:

(1) 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 road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home.
I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying,
“Bangles, crystal bangles!”

Question 1.
What is the meaning of the word vocation ?
Answer:
Vocation means a career or an occupation.

Question 2.
What time of the day does the poet see the hawker?
Answer:
The poet sees the hawker at ten in the morning while walking to school.

Question 3.
What does the hawker sell?
Answer:
The hawker sells crystal bangles.

Question 4.
Why does the poet want to be like a hawker?
Answer:
The poet wants to be like a hawker
as he would be able to spend most of his time on the road. He would no longer be needed to follow a fixed routine life and would have the freedom to live his life like the hawker.

(2) When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school,
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 task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.

Question 1.
When does the speaker return from school?
Answer:
The speaker returns from school at four in the evening.

Question 2.
What is the gardener doing with his spade?
Answer:
The gardener is digging the ground with his spade.

Question 3.
How is the life of the poet different from that of the gardener ?
Answer:
The poet has to follow a routine. He has a list of things he must do. and must not do whereas the gardener is free to do what fie wants without being questioned.

Question 4.
What does the poet want to be? Why?
Answer:
The poet wants to be a gardener to enjoy the freedom just like the gardener does.

Question 5.
What is the gardener not bothered about ?
Answer:
The gardener is not bothered about soiling his clothes with dust or getting baked in the sun or about getting wet.

(3) Just as it gets dark in the evening
and my mother sends me to bed,
I can 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.
The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side,
and never once goes to bed in his life,
I wish I were a watchman walking the street all night,
chasing the shadows with my lantern.

Question 1.
What does the speaker’s mother do as it gets dark?
Answer:
The speaker’s mother sends him to bed as it gets dark.

Question 2.
What does the speaker see through his open window ?
Answer:
The poet sees through his open window a watchman walking up and down the road.

Question 3.
Describe the lane that the speaker s can see from his open window.
Answer:
The lane that the speaker sees from his window is dark and deserted.

Question 4.
What does the poet like about the watchman ?
Answer:
The poet likes the way the watchman is allowed to walk freely in the dark and jj lonely streets without any fear.

Question 5.
What does the poet compare the street lamp with?
Answer:
The poet compares the street lamp with a giant who is tall and has one red eye on his forehead.

Who, am I ?

Sweeper, Fashion designer, Newspaper delivery boy, clown, Radio jockey, Farmer, Photographer, Poet, Painter, Chef .

(1) I am free to express my feelings and emotions on the canvas.
(2) I am free to design clothes as per my taste and creativity.
(3) I am free to talk for hours together on any subject I like and also play songs that I like.
(4) I am free to work under the open skies making barren lands fertile with my work.
(5) I am free to decide whether I use a broom or something else to keep the surroundings clean.
(6) I am free to follow my route while I deliver newspapers to people.
(7) I am free to. perform tricks and act funny while at work.
(8) I am free to capture beauty through the lens.
(9) I am free to make dishes with my creativity and understanding of the ingredients.
(10) I am free to write at my convenience whenever I get inspired to write.
Answer:
(1) Painter
(2) Fashion designer
(3) Radio – jockey
(4) Farmer
(5) Sweeper
(6) Newspaper delivery boy
(7) clown
(8) Photographer
(9) Chef
(10) Poet

Vocation Summary in English

Vocation is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. In this poem, he explains the interest of a child in three, vocations which he sees at three different times of the day. The poet explains, how and why the child feels the need to be each if them.

At ten in the morning, when the child goes , to school, he sees a bangle seller crying out, “Bangles, crystal bangles.” The child loves the freedom the bangle seller lives in. He can follow any road, go to any place and has no fixed time to do anything. In fact the bangle seller is in no hurry. The child wishes that he were a bangle seller crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles.”

school, the child sees a gardener digging the ground. He is also a free man. He can do anything with his spade. He can soil his clothes with mud. No one rebukes or reprimands him if he gets wet. None can stop him from digging. So the child wishes to be a gardener, digging the ground with freedom.

Night comes. The child’s mother sends him to bed. The child then sees through the open window, a watchman walking up and down the dark lonely lane. The street lamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head. The watchman swings his lantern. He never goes to bed. The child wishes that he were a watchman walking the streets all night and chasing the shadows with his lantern.

Glossary

crystal (adj.) made of clear, transparent, high-quality glass hawker (n.) one who sells goods in the street or from house to house calling out baked (v.) scorched by terrible heat.

Phrases

take to task criticize somebody severely especially for doing something wrong up and down moving upward and downward alternatively