Question

(NCERT Class 11, English, Hornbill, The Laburnum Top)

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 trilling
The whole tree trembles and thrills.

a) Who is ‘she’ in the first line? Where does she enter?
b) What is the ‘machine’ referred to in line 2?
c) Explain the meaning of the last line.

Answer 1

Answer:

a) bird the goldfinch

b)sound of her young ones

c) tree shakes and her family get excited