Class 11.Eng.Core CBSE Poem-2 The Laburnum Top Hornbill, Question answer Theme Message Characters, explanation

Poem-2

The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes

Laburnum  tree

Goldfinch bird.

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ABOUT THE POEM

The American goldfinch is a small North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter. 

The Laburnum Top 

The poem The laburnum top is a beautiful poem by Ted Hughes. In this poem the poet has used the laburnum tree and goldfinch  as a symbol of life and its fluctuations. He describes the visiting of goldfinches on the laburnum tree and how she has made  a nest on it. When goldfinches have chicks it brings alive the tree as the chicks started to rustle and and chirp.

Message

The Laburnum tree and the goldfinches depict the symbol of life and fluctuations. The poet wants to convey the importance of living with each other. The tree's life was seemingly dull and inanimate, but the goldfinch's arrival makes it meaningful and worth living.The goldfinches transform the tree and make it alive, without the goldfinches and the chicks the laburnum is just another tree.

Theme

The poem revolves around a Laburnum tree and a Goldfinch bird. The core theme of the poem shows us the repaying relationship between the two. Further, it begins by describing how the Laburnum tree is pretty quiet in the yellow September light.

Q1.What do you like most about the Laburnum top?

Answer. What I like most about 

the poem is, after the goldfinch arrives on the tree, the silent and still Laburnum tree suddenly starts trembling and moving. The whole tree comes to life as the chicks of the goldfinch make a lot of noise as they chitter and trill on seeing their mother.                                               the way the writer describes the wildlife, trees, birds and animals and their influence on human life is quite impressive.

Chittering-चूं चूं की आवाज

trilling-गिटकारिया़, कंपन

Question 2.

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

Answer: There is similarity in the beginning and the ending of the poem. When the poem begins the laburnum is silent. Then the goldfinch comes and the tree becomes noisy.The tree comes to life with the arrival of the goldfinch and the noise made by the young birds.

After sometime the bird flies away in the end the tree is again silent.

Question 3.

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

Answer:

The bird’s movement is compared to the swift movement of a lizard. The basis for the comparison is the sleek, alert and abrupt movement with which the bird enters its nest.It avoids being noticed by any predator.

This movement of the bird is comparable to that of a lizard.

Sleek-सफाई के साथ

Abrupt- तुरंत

Lizard -छिपकली

Predator- शिकारी

Swift- तेजी से

Question 4.

Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet?

Answer:

The engine is the source of energy to run machine.As without engine a machine cannot work in the same without a bird her family cannot survive.

 as soon as the goldfinch enters its nest on the laburnum top, the whole tree comes alive with the chirruping of the young ones of the bird, their twittering of their wings.  So the goldfinch brings the whole tree into life.

survive-जीवित रहना

twittering-चहचहाना

chirruping-चीं चीं की आवाज

Evoked-आहवाह्न करना

Question 5.

What does the phrase ‘her barred face identity mask’ mean ?

Answer: The goldfinch has  a barred face.It looks like a mask.

Her face serves as her identity.

The little goldfinch is a singing bird. It has coloured stripes across its face. The bars look like a mask or covering for the face. 

By looking at her face we can identify this is goldfinch.

stripes धारीदार

her barred face सामने का खुला चेहरा

Question 6.

What is the engine of the machine? What is its fuel?

Answer:

The goldfinch has been called the engine of her family. Just as the engine starts up the machine, the goldfinch’s arrival in the nest has suddenly started the machine i.e. the young ones in the nest have started making noise. The fuel of the engine is the food that the goldfinch brings for her chicks.

Chicks- young ones गोल्डफिंच के बच्चे

LQuestion7.

What is the significance of the term yellow?

Ans. The word yellow has a great significance. The leaves are yellow in colour. the afternoon sunlight too lends a golden yellow shade to entire atmosphere. It is an autumn season. Goldfinch is also yellow in colour. The flowers of  laburnum top also yellow in colour

Poetic Device

Tree tremble- Alliteration

Sleek as lizard- simile

Machine starts up-Metaphor

Engine of her family- Metaphor

Chittering-onomatopoeia

Trilling-onomatopoeia

Tree tremble and thrill- personification

September sunlight- Alliteration

"Her barred face identity mask" Transferred Epithet

MCQS

Question 1:

What laburnum is called in your language.

ANSWER:

Laburnum is known as Amaltas in Hindi.

Q2.Which local bird is like the goldfinch.

ANSWER:

In India, Lutino Indian Ringneck, a singing bird with yellow feathers, is like the goldfinch

Q3.Why did the Goldfinch bird came towards the tree?

Ans. to feed her younger ones

Q4.Where are the young ones of the Goldfinch bird?

Ans. On the thickness of the branch

Q5.How did the bird move to the other side of the branch?

Ans. Like a lizard

Q6.What Transferred Epithet was used in the poem  'The Laburnum Top'?  

Ans. her barred face identity mask

Q7.What is described as 'engine' in the poem?

Ans.Laburnum Tree

ANNOTATIONS

1-Goldfinch-a small singing bird एक प्रकार की छोटी चिड़िया

2-Twitch- movement of body फडफडाती हुई

3-Chirrup- sound made by bird

 चीं चीं की आवाज

4- Startlement- amazement हैरान करने वाले ढंग

5-Sleek- smooth सफाई के साथ

6- Abrupt - suddenly अचानक

7- Chittering- singing sound of a bird चूं चूं की आवाज

8- Tremor- shake,shiver कांपती हुई

9-Trilling- singing repeatedly गिटकारिया़, कंपन 

10-Stokes- to feed,add fuel खिलाना

11-Flirts- move briskly जल्दी से बाहर आना

12-Eerie- strange डरी हुई ,अजीब सी

13- Infinite-sky आकाश 

14-Launches-flies away उड़ जाना 

15-Subsides- return फिर से शांत हो जाना 

16- Barred- Bare सामने का खुला चेहरा

17- Whisperings- slow sound धीमी आवाज करना 

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