VOCATION BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

VOCATION BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

On your way to school or market you see many people at work. In pairs, discuss what you have noticed. Then read this poem. You may read it aloud with a partner, if you like.

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!”

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.

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 streetlamp 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.

WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING

WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING 

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, 

When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, 

We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it - lie down for an aeon or two, 

Till the Master of All Good Workmen Shall put us to work anew. 

And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair; 

They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet's hair. 

They shall find real saints to draw from - Magdalene, Peter, and Paul; 

They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all! 

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; 

And no one will work for the money, and no one will work for the fame, 

But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, 

Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

RETURN OF THE NATIVE BY THOMAS HARDY

RETURN OF THE NATIVE BY THOMAS HARDY 

The works of the English novelist, poet, and dramatist Thomas Hardy unite the Victorian (c. 1840–1900) and modern eras. Chances, coincidence and accidents play an important role in Thomas Hardy's novels. They reveal him to be a kind and gentle man, terribly aware of the pain human beings suffer in their struggle for life. The first major tragic novel of Hardy is The Return of the Native, and in it he creates a new vision of life under a new horizon. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destiny. Heroine Eustacia is a woman of vibrant sexuality. She is a self assertive and rebellious woman struggling to have a suitable place for herself in the male dominated society. Her efforts create a conflict between herself and the traditional society. The author tries to focus light on the female desires and aspirations in the novel by projecting Eustacia's frustrations in the circumscribed world of Egdon Heath. In the death of Eustacia, Hardy has tried to show the limitations of the values of the patriarchal society. Her death puts a question mark on the traditional values of the male-dominated society............???

HUMAN DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PART 4