Working with the poem
Qus.1 You partner and you may now be able to answer these questions.
(i) Who is the speaker in the poem? Who are the people the speaker meets? What are they doing?
Ans. The speaker is a little child in the poem. He met a hawker, who cried “Bangles, crystal bangles!” When he returned from school, he watched a gardener, who was digging the ground. When it got dark and his mother sent him to bed, through his window he saw the watchman walking up and down.
(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.
Ans. The child in the poem wants to be a hawker, a gardener, and a watchman. When he looks at the hawker, he wishes he could also spend his day on the road crying “Bangles, crystal bangles!” He feels that there is nothing to hurry the hawker on. He also wishes he was a gardener because a gardener does what he likes with his spade. He soils his clothes with dust. Nobody scolds him if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. He sees the watchman swinging his lantern with his shadow at his side and he feels that the watchman never even once has to go to bed in his entire life.
(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.
Make a list of the Dos and DON’Ts that the child doesn’t like.
The first line is done for you.
The child must The child must not
Come home at a fixed time. Get his clothes dirty in the dust.
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Now add to the list your own complaints about the things you have to do, or must not do.
Ans. The child must The child must not
Come home at a fixed time Get his clothes dirty in the dust
Go to bed when it got dark Get baked in the sun or get wet
Go to school everyday Walk on dark and lonely streets at night
2. 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 pictures of the persons doing the work.
Ans – Students should answer this question themselves.
Get NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Poem All Chapters From Below
| Chapter | Name |
| 1 | A House, A Home |
| 2 | The Kite |
| 3 | The Quarrel |
| 4 | Beauty |
| 5 | Where Do All the Teachers Go? |
| 6 | The Wonderful Words |
| 8 | Vocation |
| 9 | What if |
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