extra questions and answers of the poem laburnum top
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Extra questions and answers of the poem, The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes
1.Why is the laburnum tree silent?
Answer: The laburnum tree is silent because it is afternoon and all the birds and their chicks are asleep. Besides there is no wind.
2.What does the third line in the poem suggest?
Answer: The third line in the extract suggests the meaning of ageing and decay. ‘A few leaves yellowing and all its seeds fallen.’
3.Who perches on the tree?
Answer: A goldfinch perches on the tree.
4.Which season has been described in the poem?
Answer: The autumn season.
5.How is the tree before the arrival of the mother bird?
Answer: Before the arrival of the goldfinch, the laburnum tree is quite still.
6.Why is the bird startled? Why does the tree become noisy?
Answer: The bird is startled because it is in hurry to feed its chicks with the food it has brought. The chicks start making a bedlam of chirrups on the arrival of their parent.
7.What type of mother is the bird?
Answer: She is very quick, sleek and alert. Besides, she is a very caring and hard working mother who comes and goes so many times to feed her chicks.
8.How do the baby birds behave on the arrival of the mother bird?
Answer: Her chicks sense her arrival and they start chirruping continuously demanding the food she has brought for them.
On a sunny September day, the speaker of the poem “The Laburnum Top” describes the scene which he witnessed there. He notices a goldfinch who entered the tree flying. After the bird entered the tree it became invisible for the speaker. The bird makes the chirping sound which pleases the speaker's ears. Once the goldfinch came out and flew away, the tree returned back to its state of silence. Since most of the parts of the Laburnum tree is poisonous, still the presence of the bird and its sweet voice alters the poisonous of the tree to be sweet. But once the bird is gone the tree comes back to its original state.