Question

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 suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
(1) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) How has the poet described the top of the Laburnum tree?
(iii) What is the time of season described in the Poem?
(iv) How does the goldfinch comes to the tree?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The poet says that the laburnum tree is silent. It’s afternoon. The month is of September. There is yellow sunlight. A few leaves are yellowing. All its seeds had fallen. A goldfinch comes to that laburnum. As a lizard, she enters its thickness. Her young ones start chittering. The wings are flattered. The whole tree shakes as she skips branch to branch. She is the engine of her family. She feeds her broods as a stoker feeds an engine. She shows her barred face which is her identity. With a strange whistle like chirrup in low notes the goldfinch flies away to the infinite sky. The laburnum becomes silent as if it has become empty. 2. The laburnum tree becomes silent and empty as soon as the goldfinch leaves it away. 3. (i) The tree is full of activity (ii) She feeds her young ones fully. (iii) The activities of the laburnum halts. 4. (i) suddenness (ii) thickness