Question

english poems class 11 india

Answer 1

The Laburnum Top : 




The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still

in the afternoon yellow September sunlight, 

A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen



Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup

A suddeness, a startlement,at a branch end

Then sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt, 

She enters the thickness,and a machine starts up

Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings,and trillings -

The whole tree trembles and thrills

It is the engine of her family. 

She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end

Showing her barred face identity mask



Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings

She launches away, towards the infinite 



And the laburnum subsides to empty