Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow

1.	Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:The Laburnum top is silent, quite stillIn the afternoon yellow September sunlight.A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrupA suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,She enters the thickness and a machine starts upOf chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings-The whole tree trembles and thrills,It is the engine of her family.She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-endShowing her barred face idjtity maskThen with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperingsShe launches away, towards the InfiniteAnd the laburnum subsides to empty.Questions:1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘She launches ……………………. to empty.’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) the whole tree trembles(ii) she stokes it full(iii) the laburnum subsides to empty.4. Change the following words into nouns:(i) sudden(ii) thick
Answer» 1. The poet says that the laburnum tree is silent. It’s afternoon. The month is of September. There is yellow sunlight. A few leaves are yellowing. All its seeds had fallen. A goldfinch comes to that laburnum. As a lizard, she enters its thickness. Her young ones start chittering. The wings are flattered. The whole tree shakes as she skips branch to branch. She is the engine of her family. She feeds her broods as a stoker feeds an engine. She shows her barred face which is her identity. With a strange whistle like chirrup in low notes the goldfinch flies away to the infinite sky. The laburnum becomes silent as if it has become empty. 2. The laburnum tree becomes silent and empty as soon as the goldfinch leaves it away. 3. (i) The tree is full of activity (ii) She feeds her young ones fully. (iii) The activities of the laburnum halts. 4. (i) suddenness (ii) thickness

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:The Laburnum top is silent, quite stillIn the afternoon yellow September sunlight.A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrupA suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,She enters the thickness and a machine starts upOf chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings-The whole tree trembles and thrills,It is the engine of her family.She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-endShowing her barred face idjtity maskThen with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperingsShe launches away, towards the InfiniteAnd the laburnum subsides to empty.Questions:1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘She launches ……………………. to empty.’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) the whole tree trembles(ii) she stokes it full(iii) the laburnum subsides to empty.4. Change the following words into nouns:(i) sudden(ii) thick

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1. The poet says that the laburnum tree is silent. It’s afternoon. The month is of September. There is yellow sunlight. A few leaves are yellowing. All its seeds had fallen. A goldfinch comes to that laburnum. As a lizard, she enters its thickness. Her young ones start chittering. The wings are flattered. The whole tree shakes as she skips branch to branch. She is the engine of her family. She feeds her broods as a stoker feeds an engine. She shows her barred face which is her identity. With a strange whistle like chirrup in low notes the goldfinch flies away to the infinite sky. The laburnum becomes silent as if it has become empty.

2. The laburnum tree becomes silent and empty as soon as the goldfinch leaves it away.

3. (i) The tree is full of activity

(ii) She feeds her young ones fully.

(iii) The activities of the laburnum halts.

4. (i) suddenness

(ii) thickness

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