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    The Laburnum TOP: By: Ted Hughes

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    The poem describes a laburnum tree in late summer. A goldfinch bird arrives and enters the tree, causing it to come alive with the bird's movements and sounds. The tree had been still and silent until the goldfinch started "a machine" by fluttering and chirping through the branches. The goldfinch brings liveliness to the tree before flying away. The poem uses personification and metaphor to depict the energizing effect one small creature can have on something seemingly dull.

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    The Laburnum TOP: By: Ted Hughes

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    The poem describes a laburnum tree in late summer. A goldfinch bird arrives and enters the tree, causing it to come alive with the bird's movements and sounds. The tree had been still and silent until the goldfinch started "a machine" by fluttering and chirping through the branches. The goldfinch brings liveliness to the tree before flying away. The poem uses personification and metaphor to depict the energizing effect one small creature can have on something seemingly dull.

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    The poem describes a laburnum tree in late summer. A goldfinch bird arrives and enters the tree, causing it to come alive with the bird's movements and sounds. The tree had been still and silent until the goldfinch started "a machine" by fluttering and chirping through the branches. The goldfinch brings liveliness to the tree before flying away. The poem uses personification and metaphor to depict the energizing effect one small creature can have on something seemingly dull.

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    The Laburnum TOP: By: Ted Hughes

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    The poem describes a laburnum tree in late summer. A goldfinch bird arrives and enters the tree, causing it to come alive with the bird's movements and sounds. The tree had been still and silent until the goldfinch started "a machine" by fluttering and chirping through the branches. The goldfinch brings liveliness to the tree before flying away. The poem uses personification and metaphor to depict the energizing effect one small creature can have on something seemingly dull.

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    THE LABURNUM

    TOP
    BY: TED HUGHES
    Introduction:

    • What do you see here?

    • Which season do they indicate?

    • Which colour is dominant here?

    • What does yellow colour stand for?

    • Autumn is full of freshness, liveliness and youth


    or dullness, decay and degeneration?

    • Do you think our life also has an autumn days


    when we feel dull, listless and bored?

    • What are the things that can energise us in our


    dull moments?
    Introduction of the
    Poet:

    Edward James Hughes was an English poet,


    translator, and children's writer. Critics
    frequently rank him as one of the best poets
    of his generation, and one of the twentieth
    century's greatest writers. He was appointed
    Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office
    until his death.
    Look at the Laburnum trees and their
    flowers:
    Look at the images of the gold finch
    birds:
    The Laburnum Top :

    The whole tree trembles and thrills


    The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
    It is the engine of her family.
    in the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
    She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
    A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen
    Showing her barred face identity mask

    Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup


    Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
    A suddenness, a startlement,at a branch end
    She launches away, towards the infinite
    Then sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt,

    She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up


    And the laburnum subsides to empty
    Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings -
    1. Twitching- moving with a quick, slight jerk
    2. Startlement- amazement
    3. Sleek-smooth Word Meanings:
    4. Abrupt-sudden
    5. Chittering- twittering
    6. Tremor- shaking
    7. Trilling-fluttering sounds
    8. Stokes-fills with fuel
    9. Flirts-moves away
    10. Barred-stripped
    11. Eerie- strange
    12. Launches away- flies away
    13. Infinite- the sky
    1. The laburnum tree is silent – personification
    2. September sunlight –alliteration
    3. Tree trembles- alliteration
    4. Sleek as a lizard- simile
    5. A machine startup- metaphor
    6. It is the engine - metaphor
    7. Chittering, twitching chirrup, trilling, whistle-chirrup -Onomatopoeia
    8. Yellow colour- symbolism-symbol of decay

    Literary devices used in the poem:

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