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Home » Class 11 English Notes » The Laburnum Top (Poem-2) Summary || Class 11 English Hornbill || Poem 2 ||

The Laburnum Top (Poem-2) Summary || Class 11 English Hornbill || Poem 2 ||

Posted on 19/04/202319/04/2023 by Anshul Gupta

Poem – 2

 The Laburnum Top

In this post, we have given the summary of the Poem 2 “The Laburnum Top”. It is the 2nd Poem of the Poem of Class 11th CBSE board English. 

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Chapter no.Poem 2
Chapter NameThe Laburnum Top
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THE LABURNUM TOP

–by Ted Hughes

Stanza- 1

The Laburnum top is silent, quite still

In the afternoon yellow September sunlight,

A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.

Explanation: The poet describes a beautiful sunny autumn. The Laburnum tree is silent and still. It is laden with yellow leaves and yellow flowers in September. Its leaves have turned yellow because of the autumn season and all its seeds have fallen.

व्याख्या- कवि सुन्दर धूप वाली पतझड़ का वर्णन करता है। लबर्नम का पेड़ शांत और स्थिर है। सितंबर में यह पीले पत्तों और पीले फूलों से लदी होती है। पतझड़ के मौसम के कारण इसके पत्ते पीले पड़ गए हैं और इसके सारे बीज झड़ गए हैं।

Stanza- 2

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 a tremor of wings, and trillingsThe

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.

Explanation: Just then a goldfinch alights on the Laburnum tree making short, high-pitched sounds. The goldfinch has her nest in the tree and her chicks are resting in the nest. On the mother’s return, a sudden movement stirs the tree. Her little ones are excited on her arrival and start chirruping. The cautious mother enters the tree with great care so that no predator can come to know that her babies are housed in the nest. The poet has compared the alert, abrupt and sleek movement of the goldfinch with that of a lizard. The goldfinch has been called the engine of her family. Just as the engine starts up the machine, her arrival in the nest has suddenly started up the silent machine (nest) i.e. the young ones have started chittering and making noise. By feeding her young ones, she has added fuel to the machine and as a result the chicks now have the erergy to be active and make noise. After feeding her chicks, the goldfinch flies up and rests on the end of a branch of the tree, her identity concealed behind the yellow flowers and yellowing leaves. 

व्याख्या: तभी एक सुनहरी चिड़िया लबर्नम के पेड़ पर उतरती है और छोटी, ऊँची-ऊँची आवाज़ करती है। सुनहरी चिड़िया का घोंसला पेड़ में है और उसके बच्चे घोंसले में आराम कर रहे हैं। मां के वापस आने पर पेड़ में अचानक हलचल होती है। उसके आने पर उसके नन्हे-मुन्ने उत्साहित हो जाते हैं और चहकने लगते हैं। सतर्क माँ बड़ी सावधानी से पेड़ में प्रवेश करती है ताकि किसी शिकारी को पता न चल सके कि उसके बच्चे घोंसले में हैं। कवि ने सुनहरी चिड़िया की सतर्क, अचानक और चिकनी गति की तुलना छिपकली की गति से की है। गोल्डफिंच को उसके परिवार का इंजन कहा जाता है। जैसे ही इंजन मशीन को चालू करता है, उसके घोंसले में आने से अचानक साइलेंट मशीन (घोंसला) शुरू हो जाती है यानी बच्चे चिंघाड़ने और शोर करने लगे हैं। अपने बच्चों को खिलाकर उसने मशीन में ईंधन डाला है और इसके परिणामस्वरूप चूजों में अब सक्रिय होने और शोर करने की ऊर्जा है। अपने चूजों को खिलाने के बाद, गोल्डफिंच ऊपर उड़ती है और पेड़ की एक शाखा के सिरे पर आराम करती है, उसकी पहचान पीले फूलों और पीली पत्तियों के पीछे छिप जाती है।

Stanza- 3

Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup

whisperings She launches away, towards the infinite

And the Laburnum subsides to empty.

Explanation: After some time, the goldfinch makes astrange short, high-pitched sound. Then she flies away towards the infinite sky. The Laburnum tree becomes silent again after the departure of the goldfinch and everything seems to be the same as it was before the arrival of the goldfinch.

स्पष्टीकरण: कुछ समय बाद, गोल्डफिंच अजीब छोटी, उच्च तारत्व वाली ध्वनि करता है। फिर वह अनंत आकाश की ओर उड़ जाती है। सुनहरी चिड़िया के जाने के बाद लबरनम का पेड़ फिर से खामोश हो जाता है और सब कुछ वैसा ही लगने लगता है जैसा सुनहरी चिड़िया के आने से पहले था।

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