Vocation (poem)
{{Short description|Poem by Rabindranath Tagore}}
{{Infobox poem
| name = Vocation
| image =
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| author = Rabindranath Tagore
| original_title = {{Lang|bn|বিচিত্র সাধ|italic=no}}
| translator = Unknown
| first = 1909
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| country = {{flag|India}}
| language = Bengali
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| subject = Child thoughts
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| publisher = Original - Unknown.
Translated - Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.
| publication_date_en = {{start date|2006}}
| media_type = Original - unknown.
Translated - hardcover
| lines = Original - unknown
Translated - 36
| pages = Translated - 40-41
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| isbn = 81-8332-175-5
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"Vocation" ({{langx|bn|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.{{cite book|title=Macmillan Reference USA|year=1976|publisher=Macmillan|location=USA|isbn=978-0-02-865993-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americansatwarso0000unse}}
Plot
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.{{cite book|last=Daruwalla|first=Keki N.|title=Poetry Magic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dU6bCebkOvAC&pg=PA40|year=2006|publisher=Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.|isbn=81-8332-175-5|pages=40–41}}