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.
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