NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English<\/a><\/p>\nVocation NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Honeysuckle Poem 7<\/h2>\nVocation NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers<\/h3>\n
Vocation Working with the poem<\/strong><\/p>\nQuestion 1.
\nYour partner and you may now be able to answer these questions.<\/p>\n
i. Who is the speaker in the poem? Who are the people the speaker meets? What are they doing?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker in the poem is a schoolgoing child. The people he meets are the people one typically finds around in one\u2019s neighbourhood having different vocations, such as a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. Each of them is performing their duties. The hawker is selling crystal bangles; the gardener is digging the garden of a house, and the night watchman is keeping a guard in the locality.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
ii. 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.
\nAnswer:
\nThe child wishes to be a hawker, a gamer or a watchman. He wants to be a hawker so that he also has the freedom to roam about in any street he wants, and return home when he pleases.
\nHe wants to be a gardener so that he can spend all his day playing in the ground and not get scolded for soiling his clothes.<\/p>\n
As a watchman, the child can roam in the streets even at night and play shadow games with his lantern. He does not like to go to bed at night.<\/p>\n
The following are the lines which tell us this:<\/p>\n
\n- I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in
\nthe road, crying, \u201cBangles, crystal bangles!\u201d<\/li>\n - I wish I were a gardener digging away at the
\ngarden with nobody to stop me from digging.<\/li>\n - I wish I were a watchman walking the street
\nall night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n
iii. 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.
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n
\n\n\nThe child must<\/strong><\/td>\nThe child must not<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\ncome home at a fixed time.<\/td>\n | get his clothes dirty in the dust.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \ngo to bed on time.<\/td>\n | spends time under the sun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nI must make my own bed.<\/td>\n | gets wet in rain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nI must wake up on time and go to school every day.<\/td>\n | walk the streets at night.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nI must complete my homework daily and help my parents with chores.<\/td>\n | I must not leave home without an elder.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nI must take a bath daily.<\/td>\n | I must not talk to strangers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n iv. Like the child in the poem, you perhaps have your own wishes for yourself. Talk to your friend, using \u201cI wish I were… \u201d (Encourage the students to use their creativity and formulate their own answers.) \nAnswer:<\/p>\n | | |