Summary of the poem Authorship ' by Rabindranath Tagore?

Answer 1

The narrator's mother said that father is a true author because he writes a lot of books, but what he writes the narrator does not understand. Father was reading to his mother all the evening, but she could not really make out what father meant. He enquired from his mother about the beautiful Children's Books from nice stores and to tell him the reason as to why can't father write like that, he wondered. Did father never hear from his own mother stories of giants and fairies and princesses? Has he forgotten them all? Often when father gets late for his bath mother has to and call him a hundred times. His mother has to wait and keep his father's dishes warm for him, but he goes on writing and forgets. Father always plays at making books. If he ever goes to play in father's room, his mother would come and call him saying what a naughty child is he.

If he ever makes the slightest noise mother would say, "Don't you see that father's at his work?" He wondered with what's with all the fun of always writing and writing? When he takes up his father's pen or pencil and write upon his book just as he does,-a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,-why does his mother get cross with him then? She never says a word when father writes. When his father wastes such heaps of paper, his mother, does not seem to mind at all. But if he takes only one sheet to take a boat with, his mother would say, "Child, how troublesome you are!" He still wonders as to what his mother thinks of his father's spoiling sheets and sheets of paper with black marks all over both sides?