Question

Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,

She enters a thickness and a machine starts up

Of chitterings and a tremor of wings, and trillings

The whole tree trembles and thrills.





iii) Name the poet of the given lines.

a) Ted Hughes b) Robert Frost

c) Stephen Spender c) William Wordsworth​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Ted Hughes

The young ones get excited to see their mother arriving with food so they often make chittering and trilling sounds. In the given lines, the movement of the goldfinch is compared to that of a lizard. Just like a lizard, the goldfinch also makes sleek, abrupt and alert movements while feeding her children.