How can you say Amalkanti didn't become a sunlight?

Did you read the poem Amalkanti? Reading poems had never been in my blood before. Yet this poem somehow changed my taste. It was only when my English teacher explained; I understood it somehow – but from a different angle. 

The poem goes like this: 

Amalkanti is a friend of mine, 
we were together at school, 
He often came late to class, 
and never knew his lessons... 
                                   -Nirendranath Chakrabarti 

I am reading this poem once more. Now I feel it can be explained from yet another perspective. But doesn’t mean I am trying to oppose its interpretation given by my teacher. 

The dream of becoming sunlight is hard to explain. If we relate it with the features of real sunlight, the dream can be considered different – that will bring abilities to see and realize in people. Sunlight had always received high regards in mythologies, parables and folk tales. So when Amalkanti’s dream was to become sunlight, it must be to do something different; something that will keep the humanity lit. 

                               

But this dream appears almost impossible to achieve. So Amalkanti should have worked hard enough to fulfill it. However looking into how his friend (poet) describes him, he seems to have never worked on it. 

Therefore in the last stanza, the poet says they (except Amalkanti) have more or less achieved the dreams. He also says one who is a teacher could have easily become a doctor or a lawyer. But Amalkanti who wanted to become sunlight didn’t become sunlight. Instead he landed in a poorly lit room to work with a printer. 

So Amalkanti was portrayed as a lazy man who crazily dreamed high but hasn’t worked hard. This is also how I understood that time. I took him as a loser. It indeed taught us to have just reasonable dreams and then to work accordingly to have them achieved. 

But today I feel that Amalkanti should have never been treated only that way. In the first place, he doesn’t appear destined to be either teacher or doctor or lawyer. He has more. When asked to conjugate a verb (must be from the lesson he missed), Amalkanti neither asked his nearby friends nor flipped the book. Instead he looked far out of windows for the answers. This shows Amalkanti actually thought out of box. He wanted so much to be different – walk out of the road trodden by all. 

When all his friends got more or less what they wanted, Amalkanti was with a printer. He must have become writer or publisher. This means he has indeed achieved the dream. His friends have failed to look his success well. What we can relate with real sunlight than a writer or publisher who enlightens public on various subjects? 

The room he works may be poorly lit, yet it seems he isn’t bothered. He didn’t become as society wanted him to be. He became different. He followed his heart. At last it’s only Amalkanti who visits the poet often to talk on various topics over a cup of tea. Friends who have become teacher or doctor or lawyer are nowhere. This shows the power of writers, publishers and print media. 

I think Amalkanti is an allegorical poem (please let me know if there is such kind of poem). And Amalkanti shouldn’t be looked as a person who crazily dreamed high and never worked well for it. He is indeed a person who had dared break social walls in becoming what he is best at or destined in rather than where society wants him to be. After all, no matter what people have to say, getting what one loves can be success. 

Therefore, I think it can be indeed wrong to say that Amalkanti isn't a successful student. Do you think I am wrong? Can it be interpreted another way? Please leave your views as comments. I would love to hear different views.