Question 1.
How does the Laburnum tree appear in September?
Question 2.
How does the laburnum tree appear in September? Does the arrival of the goldfinch bring about a change in it?
Question 3.
Describe the laburnum top.
Question 4.
Why did the goldfinch enter the thickness of the laburnum tree? Quote the line/ words which support your answer.
Question 5.
What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree?
Question 6.
How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line that shows this transformation.
Question 7.
In the poem ‘Laburnum Top’, what is the bird’s movement compared to?
Question 8.
Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet in ‘The Laburnum Top’?
Question 9.
What do you notice about the beginning and end of the poem ‘The Laburnum Top’?
Question 10.
What do you like most about the poem?
Answers
Answer 1:
Leaves become yellow, the seeds fall.
Answer 2:
The laburnum tree looks yellow and still in September afternoon sunshine. It bursts into activity and life when the goldfinch arrives. There is plenty of sound and movement in its branches.
Answer 3:
The laburnum tree is silent and quiet. Its leaves are yellowing and seeds fallen. It stands in yellow September light.
Answer 4:
To feed her young ones; the relevant line/words are ‘the engine of her family’ and ‘she stokes it full’.
Answer 5:
There was sound, activity and movement when the bird came, there was plenty of chirping. She went in to feed her chicks and the whole tree seemed to vibrate with the fluttering of wings and the shrill sound of her chicks.
Answer 6:
The tree is silent, still and empty before and after the bird’s visit. When the bird comes, there is sound of chirping, fluttering of wings and the whole tree comes alive. The line is ‘the whole tree trembles and thrills’.
Answer 7:
The bird’s movement has been compared to that of a lizard. Her movement is smooth and clean like a lizard’s.
Answer 8:
The image of the engine has been evoked by the poet in The Laburnum Top to show the stirrings and the sounds and energy that can be seen when the goldfinch enters the thick leaf cover in the laburnum tree and feeds her chicks.
Answer 9:
The tree was silent before the goldfinch came. It became silent again after she left.
Answer 10:
The poem is about the laburnum tree which is still and silent and losing its leaves. It bursts into life when a goldfinch comes to feed her chicks. After her departure, the tree becomes empty and silent again. The life and energy that the bird brings to the tree is its most attractive feature of the poem.
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