Question

Q. Answer the following questions:

i. How does the tree respond to the sudden activity of the bird?

ii. Explain the line ‘Then sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt, she enters

the thickness and a machine starts up…’

iii. How does the poet describe the goldfinch bird?

iv. What is the engine of the machine? What is its fuel?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Question 1.

What do you notice about the beginning and the ending of the poem?

Answer:

The thing similar in the beginning and the ending of the poem is that the Laburnum tree is still and silent on both occasions.

Question 2.

To what is the bird’s movement compared? What is the basis for the comparison?

Answer:

The bird’s (goldfinch’s) movement is compared to that of a lizard. The basis of the comparison is that the goldfinch’s movement is sudden and abrupt, which is quite similar to the movement of a lizard.