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Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions given below:

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 bakes in the sun or gets wet.

I wish I were a gardener digging away at the

garden with nobody the stop me from digging

(i) Who is the speaker of the above lines?

(ii) What was the child thinking about the gardener?

(iii) Who was digging the ground and where?

(iv) Name the poet and the poem.

Answer:

(i) The speaker of the above lines is a small boy.

(ii) The child was thinking about the gardener that the gardener has spread soil all over his clothes and has made them dirty and nobody punished him for it.

(iii) The gardener was digging the ground outside the house with his spade.

(iv) The poet of the above lines is Rabindranath Tagore and the poem is Vocation.