Question

“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 trillings- The whole tree trembles and thrills.” (a) Who is ‘she’ in the above lines? Where does ‘she’ enter? (b) Why is ‘she’ compared to a lizard? (c) What is referred to as ‘machine’? (d) Explain ‘the whole tree trembles and thrills’. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

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 trillings— ... b) The 'machine' referred to in the second line is the nest of the goldfinch