The Laburnum tree and the goldfinch bird is the engine of her family. She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end The tree first being death-like and still and then giving life and shelter to bird and her young ones. The poet has given two opposite scenarios of the tree. Because of the movement of the bird and her young ones, the tree starts to shake and thrill. As she moved towards the thickness of the branch, her younger ones started chirruping and doing vibrations with wings, making a sound like a machine. The bird while being rapid, alert and precautions like a lizard, sits on the branches of the tree. Trillings – to produce a chirruping soundĪ Goldfinch bird comes to end the death-like scene of the tree and makes a sudden chirrup sound.
Tremor of wings – involuntary vibration of the wings Startlement – feeling or showing sudden shock
Goldfinch – a small singing birds with yellow feathers on its wingsĬhirrup – a bird making repeated high pitched sounds Of chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings. She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt, Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrupĪ suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end. He describes the whole scene of the tree with this colour. Yellow symbolizes silence, death, and beauty. The poet has used the word ‘yellow’ for leaves and sunlight. It is autumn season and all the seeds of the tree had fallen. The tree’s top is still and silent in the day time of September month. In the above lines, the poet says that he saw a Laburnum tree whose leaves were yellow. Laburnum – a short tree with hanging branches, yellow flowers, and poisonous seedsĬlass 11th English Hornbill and Snapshots Lessons Explanation, Question AnswersĬlass 11 English Snapshots Book Lessons ExplanationĬlass 11th English Hornbill and Snapshots Book MCQs In the afternoon yellow September sunlight,Ī few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen. She flew away in the sky, leaving the tree death-like again. Her dark coloured face with the yellow body was barely visible as she vanished behind the yellow leaves. The death-like tree becomes alive and it trembles and shakes.Īfter feeding them, she flies to the other side of the branch. As soon as she arrives, her younger ones start chirping like a machine and vibrating and flapping their wings. She further moves to the other side of the branch with rapid and precautionary movement like a lizard. She arrives at the end of the branch with a chirping sound. She came to feed her younger ones who are on the thickness of the branch. The life-less tree becomes alive by the arrival of the Goldfinch bird. It was a daytime in the month of September when the tree was standing still and death-like. Its leaves had turned yellow and seeds had fallen down. The poem starts with a description of the Laburnum tree whose top was still and silent. The Laburnum Top Class 11 Video Explanation Important Videos Links Class 11 Important Questions VideosĬlass 11 English Hornbill and Snapshots Book MCQs VideoĬlass 11 Snapshots Book Chapter wise ExplanationĬlass 11 Hornbill Book Chapter wise Explanation But as soon as the bird leaves to fly in the sky, the tree becomes silent and death-like again. The yellow bird has her shelter on the tree where she feeds her young ones. The tree is yellow, silent and death-like and is made alive by the bird and her young ones. It is about a repaying relationship between the Laburnum tree and the Goldfinch bird. The poem ‘The Laburnum Top’ is written by Ted Hughes.
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