Question

1. Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings-
The whole tree trembles
and thrills.

(i) What is the significance of the 'machine' in the second line?

(ii) Explain: 'The whole tree trembles and thrills'.

(iii) Who makes the 'whole tree tremble and thrill"?

Answer 1

Answer:

the whole tree tremles and thrills