The Laburnum Top Extract Questions And Answers Class 11

The Laburnum Top Extract Questions And Answers Class 11 is available here, we are providing four extract from this poem, two of them are with answers and two without answers. The extract without answers are for students to practice.


The Laburnum Top Extract Questions And Answers

The Laburnum Top Extract Questions And Answers

The Laburnum Top Extract- 1

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The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
In the afternoon yellow September sunlight, 
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.

Q. (a) What time of the day and season is indicated in the above lines?

Q. (b) Why is the laburnum top silent?

Q. (c) What does ‘a few leaves yellowing’ signify?

Answers:-.

(a) ‘The Laburnum Top’ starts with the description of the laburnum top in the autumn of a September afternoon.

(b)The laburnum top is still and silent because the sun is shining and there is no wind. There is nothing to disturb the calmness around the laburnum tree.

(c)  Autumn is also known as ‘fall’. The phrase signifies the autumn season where leaves become yellow and fall.


The Laburnum Top Extract- 2

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The whole tree trembles and thrills. 
It is the engine of her Family.
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask

Q. (a) Why does the whole tree tremble and thrill?

Q. (b) Explain the phrase, ‘She strokes it full’.

Q. (c) What does the bird look like?

Answers:-

(a) The whole tree trembles and thrills because the goldfinch enters the thickness where her young ones calmly reside. They are excited at her arrival and they start chittering and flapping their wings.

(b) The goldfinch’s family is the engine that runs the machine, the laburnum tree, by filling it with noise and activities. Like the tree, the goldfinch is the engine of her family because, without her, the family cannot survive.

(c) The goldfinch’s face becomes her identity mask. She is recognised through her face. Hence, it is a marker of recognition for the bird.


The Laburnum Top Extract- 3

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Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch-end.
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt, 
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings

Q.(a) In what way does the goldfinch breathe life into the still form of the tree?

 Q. (b) What does the word ‘thickness’ signify?

Q. (c) Which sound words are used in the stanza?

Answers

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The Laburnum Top Extract- 4

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Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings 
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty.

Q. (a) How does the goldfinch leave?

Q. (b) What is the state of the laburnum tree after the goldfinch flies away?   

Q. (c) What does ‘towards the infinite’ mean?

Answers-

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