23. Summary of the poem “The Laburnum Top” The top of the Laburnum; a short tree with hanging branches, yellow flowers and poisonous seeds: any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, esp. L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum; is quite still and silent in the yellow afternoon of the September sunlight. The leaves of this tree are turning yellow and all its seeds are falling slowly. When the goldfinch; a small singing bird with yellow feathers on its wings; a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow: any of certain related
24. American finches of the genus Carduelis, as C. tristis , the male of which has yellow body plumage in the summer; comes with a twitching chirrup of suddenness, a startlement; to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm: to cause to start involuntarily, by or as by a sudden shock: at a branch end. Just like a lizard which is sleek alert and abrupt she enters the thick branches of the Laburnum and starts up the machine of chitterlings; the small intestine of swine, esp. when prepared as food; a tremor of wings and Trillings. The whole tree trembles and thrills which is the engine of the goldfinch’s family. She stokes; to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire): to tend the fire of (a furnace, esp. one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel: to shake up the
25. coals of a fire: to tend a fire or furnace: the tree completely and flirts out to a branch-end, showing her barred face identity mask. Then with an eerie; Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening: Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings, she launches away towards the infinite; immeasurably great: indefinitely or exceedingly great: unlimited or immeasurable in extent of space, duration of time, etc.: unbounded or unlimited; boundless; endless: and the laburnum subsides; to sink to a low whisperings, she launches away towards the infinite; immeasurably great: indefinitely or exceedingly great: unlimited or immeasurable in extent of space, duration of time, etc.:
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27. 2 . What is the Meaning of the poem the laburnum top by Ted Hughes? Answer : The Poem "The Laburnum Top" is a beautiful poem by Ted Hughes. In this poem, the poet has used the Laburnum tree and goldfinches 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 the goldfinches have chicks, it brings alive the tree as the chicks start to rustle and chirp. Hughes is trying to convey the message that life is a process of exchange and transformation. People are alive because they undergo exchange of energy. The goldfinches transform the tree and make it alive, without the goldfinches and the chicks the laburnum is just
28. another tree. 3. In the poem the laburnum top by Ted Hughes, to what is the bird's movement compared? Answer : Hughes uses a simile to compare the bird's movement to that of a lizard... "Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,"
