{"id":7785,"date":"2021-07-23T13:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncertsolutions.guru\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:15:34","slug":"ncert-solutions-for-class-6-english-honeysuckle-poem-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncertsolutions.guru\/ncert-solutions-for-class-6-english-honeysuckle-poem-7\/","title":{"rendered":"NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Honeysuckle Poem 7 Vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English<\/a><\/p>\n

Vocation NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Honeysuckle Poem 7<\/h2>\n

Vocation NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers<\/h3>\n

Vocation Working with the poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question 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

\"NCERT<\/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