The Laburnum Top NCERT Text Book WORDS-MEANING Questions
and Answers WORDS-MEANINGS:
Laburnum: एक
वृक्ष जिसकी शाखाएं झूली हुई रहती है उसमे पीले रंग के फूल लगते है और उसके बीज
जहरीले होते हैं।
Goldfinch: एक
पक्षी जिसके पंख पीले होते हैं।
Twitch: सरीर की किसी छोटे से भाग की हरकत
Chirrup: पक्षियों द्वारा बनाई गई आवाज़
Startlement: विस्मय
Sleek: चिकना (बड़े ही सांत तरीके से बिना कोई आवाज किये)
Chitterling: पक्षियों के गाने की आवाज
Stokes- here, add fuel to the engine: कविता में, गोल्डफिंच अपने परिवार के लिए ईंधन(भोजन) का स्रोत है।
Flirts: तेजी से चलना
Eerie: अजीब या रहस्यमय
Infinite: आकाश
Subsides: कम
किया हुआ।
Find out
Question 1.
What laburnum is called in your language.
(Answers will vary)
Question 2.
Which local bird is like the goldfinch.
Answer: Birds which sing melodiously like the goldfinch in India include the
Asian Koel, the Bulbul, the House Sparrow, the Himalayan Cuckoo, the Swallow
and so on.
The Laburnum Top Think it out
Question 1. What do you notice about the
beginning and the ending of the poem?
Answer:The beginning of the poem is
about the silence and stillness of the laburnum. The end of the poem again
drifts into silence and emptiness of the laburnum.
Question 2.
To what is the bird’s movement compared? What is the basis for the comparison?
Answer:
The bird’s movement is compared to that of a lizard. The basis for the
comparison is the sleek, alert and abrupt movement with which the bird enters
its nest. This movement of the bird is comparable to that of a lizard.
Question 3. Why is
the image of the engine evoked by the poet?
Answer:The
poet evokes the image of an engine because 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 and the tremor of their wings. As an
engine brings a seemingly dead machine to life, so the chittering family of the
goldfinch brings the whole tree into life.
Question 4.
What do you like most about the poem?
Answer:
Open-ended question. Here is a suggested answer: I like the depiction and the
imagery in the poem. The poet creates a mundane yet beautiful picture of a tree
top that goes through stages from being silent to alive and drifts back into
silence again. The imagery of an engine bringing alive a machine is also
something that catches my fancy.
Question 5.
What does the phrase “her barred face identity mask” mean?
Answer:
The phrase refers to the face of the bird that is covered with fur of different
colours and which looks like a mask making it the identity of the bird.
Note down
1. the sound words
Chirrup, machine starts up, chitterings, whistle-chirrup whisperings, trillings,
engine, stokes it full, subsides to empty.
2. the movement words
Seeds fallen, sleek as a lizard, enters the thickness, tremor of wings, tree
trembles and thrills, flirts out to a branch-end, she launches away.
3. the dominant colour in the poem.
The
Laburnum tree has yellowing leaves, sitting still in the afternoon yellow
sunlight. The goldfinch, a bird full of yellow feathers flies on to its
branches to sit and sing. The dominant colour in all the descriptions in the
poem is yellow.
The Laburnum Top List the following
Question
1.
Words which describe ‘sleek’, ‘alert’ and ‘abrupt’.
Answer:
Sleek – Smooth, Polished, Effortless
Alert – Watchful, Careful, Brisk, Active
Abrupt – Hasty, Quick, Sudden, Rushed
Question
2.
Words with the sound ‘ch’ as in ‘chart’ and ‘tr’ as in ‘trembles’ in the poem.
Answer:
Words with ‘Ch’ – Chirrup, Chitterings, Whistle-Chirrup
Words with ‘Tr’ – Tremor, Trillings, Tree, Trembles, Thrills
Question
3.
Other sounds that occur frequently in the poem.
Answer:
‘St’ – Still, Startlement, Starts up
‘-ings’ – Chitterings, Wings, Trillings, Whisperings
