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  1. Although the wandering singers do not have any permanent home or family, they do not show any sadness about it. In the line ‘All men are kindred, the world is our home,’ the wandering singers tell us that they consider everyone their family and the whole world their home. So, they feel a bond with eRead more

    Although the wandering singers do not have any permanent home or family, they do not show any sadness about it. In the line ‘All men are kindred, the world is our home,’ the wandering singers tell us that they consider everyone their family and the whole world their home. So, they feel a bond with everyone and at home anywhere and everywhere.

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  1. Lucifer
    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    The speaker's grandmother's house is a place full of memories for her. Her grandmother had died some years before, and she is nostalgic about the house because she had spent many happy times there. The speaker is also nostalgic about the house and the time she spent there because it is now full of mRead more

    The speaker’s grandmother’s house is a place full of memories for her. Her grandmother had died some years before, and she is nostalgic about the house because she had spent many happy times there. The speaker is also nostalgic about the house and the time she spent there because it is now full of memories of her grandmother for her.

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  1. The child is attracted towards the bangle seller because he thinks that the bangle seller never hurries like him (the child himself). Unlike the child, the bangle seller has no road to take and no place to go and there is no time bound for him to return back to home. In other words, the bangle selleRead more

    The child is attracted towards the bangle seller because he thinks that the bangle seller never hurries like him (the child himself). Unlike the child, the bangle seller has no road to take and no place to go and there is no time bound for him to return back to home. In other words, the bangle seller appears to be enjoying freedom. This is what the child is attracted to while seeing the bangle seller.

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  1. The child finds the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with the spade. His clothes become dirty but no one scolds him for that. And no one stops him from doing his work though it may be a sunny day or a rainy day. In other words, the child thinks that the gardener enjoys freedom. ThiRead more

    The child finds the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with the spade. His clothes become dirty but no one scolds him for that. And no one stops him from doing his work though it may be a sunny day or a rainy day. In other words, the child thinks that the gardener enjoys freedom. This fascinates him.

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  1. He finds different vocations interesting because they all seem to be enjoying freedom unlike he himself. He desires to become a bangle-seller, a gardener and a watchman because he thinks that they all enjoy freedom. On the other hand, he himself is deprived of the freedom. This is is why finds otherRead more

    He finds different vocations interesting because they all seem to be enjoying freedom unlike he himself. He desires to become a bangle-seller, a gardener and a watchman because he thinks that they all enjoy freedom. On the other hand, he himself is deprived of the freedom. This is is why finds other vocations interesting.

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  1. These locations have been mentioned in the poem Vocation- lane on which he walks to school, gate of a house near to his own, dark and lonely lane on which the watchman walks. Read summary of Vocation Play quiz on Vocation Poem

    These locations have been mentioned in the poem Vocation- lane on which he walks to school, gate of a house near to his own, dark and lonely lane on which the watchman walks.

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