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The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes describes a laburnum tree that is still and silent until a goldfinch arrives. When the goldfinch enters the tree with its young, it causes a commotion of sounds that makes the entire tree tremble and come alive. The goldfinch feeds its family within the tree, acting as its "engine" and bringing it to life. Once the goldfinch leaves and flies away, the laburnum tree returns to its silent and empty state.

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The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes Made by – Pushpendra Singh PGT English
GOLDFINCH Goldfinch – a small singing birds with yellow feathers on its wings
LABURNUM TREE Laburnum – a short tree with hanging branches, yellow flowers, and poisonous seeds
THE POET Edward James Hughes( Ted Hughes ) was an English poet 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 served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
THEME • The first three lines of the poem impress upon the reader the stillness of the laburnum tree. A small Goldfinch comes and the tree bursts with movement and sound. • • The bird’s family lodges in the thickness of the tree. The goldfinch enters the tree’s thickness to feed her young ones and flies away.
The yellow bird has her shelter on the tree where she feeds her young ones.
GIST CONTINUES.. • • The tree becomes silent once again when the bird flies • away. • • The poet has used imagery • of sound and movement to • show the tree coming alive
INTRODUCTION • • The Poem "The Laburnum Top" is a beautiful poem • by Ted Hughes. In this poem, the poet has used the • Laburnum tree and goldfinches as a symbol of life • and its fluctuations. He describes the visiting of • goldfinches on the Laburnum tree and how she has • made a nest on it. When the goldfinches have • chicks, it brings alive the tree as the chicks start to • rustle and chirp. Hughes is trying to convey the • message that life is a process of exchange and • transformation. People are alive because they • undergo exchange of energy. The goldfinches • transform the tree and make it alive, without the • goldfinches and the chicks the laburnum is just • another tree
• The Laburnum top is silent, quite still. In the afternoon yellow september sunlight. A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup. A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end. Then sleeks as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt, she enters in to the thickness, and a machine starts up of chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings
THE WHOLE TREE TUMBLES… The whole tree trembles and thrills. It is the engine of her family. She stokes it full, then flirt out to a branchend. Showing her barred face identity mask.
EERIE SILENCE…
EMPTINESS • Then with eerie • delicate whistlechirrup • whisperings. • She launches away, • towards the infinite. • And the laburnum • subsides to empty.
THE POEM …. The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still in the afternoon yellow September sunlight, A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.
EXPLANATION • In the above lines, the poet says that he saw a Laburnum tree whose leaves were yellow. The tree’s top is still and silent in the day time of September month. It is autumn season and all the seeds of the tree had fallen. • The poet has used the word ‘yellow’ for leaves and sunlight. Yellow symbolizes silence, death, and beauty. He describes the whole scene of the tree with this colour.
THE POEM …. 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 chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings — The whole tree trembles and thrills.
EXPLN. • A Goldfinch bird comes to end the death-like scene of the tree and makes a sudden chirrup sound. The bird while being rapid, alert and precautiouns like a lizard, sits on the branches of the tree. As she moved towards the thickness of the branch, her younger ones started chirruping and doing vibrations with wings, making a sound like a machine. Because of the movement of the bird and her young ones, the tree starts to shake and thrill. • The poet has given two opposite scenarios of the tree. The tree first being death-like and still and then giving life and shelter to bird and her young ones.
THE POEM • It is the engine of her family. She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end Showing her barred face identity mask
EXPLN. • The Laburnum tree and the goldfinch bird is the engine of her family. She provides food to her young ones and moves to the other branch end. Her dark coloured striped face is visible as her body is yellow coloured and hides behind the yellow leaves of the tree.
THE POEM ENDS… Then with eerie delicate whistle- chirrup whisperings She launches away, towards the infinite And the laburnum subsides to empty.
EXPLN. • After reaching the end of the branch, the bird makes a sweet chirping sound just like whispering and flies away towards the infinite sky. It again makes the Laburnum tree silent and death-like.
NEW WORDS • Goldfinch – a small singing birds with yellow feathers on its wings Twitching – sudden jerk movement Chirrup – a bird making repeated high pitched sounds Startlement – feeling or showing sudden shock Abrupt – rapid Chitterings – to make a chattering sound Tremor of wings – involuntary vibration of the wings Trillings – to produce a chirruping sound Trembles – to shake Thrills – a sudden feeling of excitement
NEW WORDS • Flirts out – lead on to • Stokes – to add fuel to the engine • Barred – stripy • Eerie – weird and strange • Whistle-chirrup – gentle whisper like the chirping of the bird • Subsides – diminishes
POETIC DEVICES • 1. Alliteration - repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words. The instances of alliteration in the poem are as follows- • September sunlight • tree trembles • • 2. Simile – comparison between two things using like or as. • Sleek as a lizard
POETIC DEVICES • Metaphor – an indirect comparison between two things. Generally, a quality is compared. • “She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up” - the noise created by the movement of the birds is compared to the machine’s noise “It is the engine of her family.” “Showing her barred face identity mask” • • 4. Personification – the attribution of personal nature characteristics to something non- human • The whole tree trembles and thrills. • • 5. Transferred Epithet – the figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to another noun • her barred face identity mask
ASSIGNMENT : • 1. ‘She launches away, towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. • 2. Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet? • 3. Describe the Laburnum tree. • 4. What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree? • 5. How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line • that shows this transformation. • 6. Explain the line ‘And the laburnum subsides to empty’.
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The laburnum top ppt

  • 1. The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes Made by – Pushpendra Singh PGT English
  • 2. GOLDFINCH Goldfinch – a small singing birds with yellow feathers on its wings
  • 3. LABURNUM TREE Laburnum – a short tree with hanging branches, yellow flowers, and poisonous seeds
  • 4. THE POET Edward James Hughes( Ted Hughes ) was an English poet 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 served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
  • 5. THEME • The first three lines of the poem impress upon the reader the stillness of the laburnum tree. A small Goldfinch comes and the tree bursts with movement and sound. • • The bird’s family lodges in the thickness of the tree. The goldfinch enters the tree’s thickness to feed her young ones and flies away.
  • 6. The yellow bird has her shelter on the tree where she feeds her young ones.
  • 7. GIST CONTINUES.. • • The tree becomes silent once again when the bird flies • away. • • The poet has used imagery • of sound and movement to • show the tree coming alive
  • 8. INTRODUCTION • • The Poem "The Laburnum Top" is a beautiful poem • by Ted Hughes. In this poem, the poet has used the • Laburnum tree and goldfinches as a symbol of life • and its fluctuations. He describes the visiting of • goldfinches on the Laburnum tree and how she has • made a nest on it. When the goldfinches have • chicks, it brings alive the tree as the chicks start to • rustle and chirp. Hughes is trying to convey the • message that life is a process of exchange and • transformation. People are alive because they • undergo exchange of energy. The goldfinches • transform the tree and make it alive, without the • goldfinches and the chicks the laburnum is just • another tree
  • 9. • The Laburnum top is silent, quite still. In the afternoon yellow september sunlight. A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.
  • 10. Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup. A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end. Then sleeks as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt, she enters in to the thickness, and a machine starts up of chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings
  • 11. THE WHOLE TREE TUMBLES… The whole tree trembles and thrills. It is the engine of her family. She stokes it full, then flirt out to a branchend. Showing her barred face identity mask.
  • 13. EMPTINESS • Then with eerie • delicate whistlechirrup • whisperings. • She launches away, • towards the infinite. • And the laburnum • subsides to empty.
  • 14. THE POEM …. The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still in the afternoon yellow September sunlight, A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.
  • 15. EXPLANATION • In the above lines, the poet says that he saw a Laburnum tree whose leaves were yellow. The tree’s top is still and silent in the day time of September month. It is autumn season and all the seeds of the tree had fallen. • The poet has used the word ‘yellow’ for leaves and sunlight. Yellow symbolizes silence, death, and beauty. He describes the whole scene of the tree with this colour.
  • 16. THE POEM …. 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 chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings — The whole tree trembles and thrills.
  • 17. EXPLN. • A Goldfinch bird comes to end the death-like scene of the tree and makes a sudden chirrup sound. The bird while being rapid, alert and precautiouns like a lizard, sits on the branches of the tree. As she moved towards the thickness of the branch, her younger ones started chirruping and doing vibrations with wings, making a sound like a machine. Because of the movement of the bird and her young ones, the tree starts to shake and thrill. • The poet has given two opposite scenarios of the tree. The tree first being death-like and still and then giving life and shelter to bird and her young ones.
  • 18. THE POEM • It is the engine of her family. She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end Showing her barred face identity mask
  • 19. EXPLN. • The Laburnum tree and the goldfinch bird is the engine of her family. She provides food to her young ones and moves to the other branch end. Her dark coloured striped face is visible as her body is yellow coloured and hides behind the yellow leaves of the tree.
  • 20. THE POEM ENDS… Then with eerie delicate whistle- chirrup whisperings She launches away, towards the infinite And the laburnum subsides to empty.
  • 21. EXPLN. • After reaching the end of the branch, the bird makes a sweet chirping sound just like whispering and flies away towards the infinite sky. It again makes the Laburnum tree silent and death-like.
  • 22. NEW WORDS • Goldfinch – a small singing birds with yellow feathers on its wings Twitching – sudden jerk movement Chirrup – a bird making repeated high pitched sounds Startlement – feeling or showing sudden shock Abrupt – rapid Chitterings – to make a chattering sound Tremor of wings – involuntary vibration of the wings Trillings – to produce a chirruping sound Trembles – to shake Thrills – a sudden feeling of excitement
  • 23. NEW WORDS • Flirts out – lead on to • Stokes – to add fuel to the engine • Barred – stripy • Eerie – weird and strange • Whistle-chirrup – gentle whisper like the chirping of the bird • Subsides – diminishes
  • 24. POETIC DEVICES • 1. Alliteration - repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words. The instances of alliteration in the poem are as follows- • September sunlight • tree trembles • • 2. Simile – comparison between two things using like or as. • Sleek as a lizard
  • 25. POETIC DEVICES • Metaphor – an indirect comparison between two things. Generally, a quality is compared. • “She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up” - the noise created by the movement of the birds is compared to the machine’s noise “It is the engine of her family.” “Showing her barred face identity mask” • • 4. Personification – the attribution of personal nature characteristics to something non- human • The whole tree trembles and thrills. • • 5. Transferred Epithet – the figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to another noun • her barred face identity mask
  • 26. ASSIGNMENT : • 1. ‘She launches away, towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. • 2. Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet? • 3. Describe the Laburnum tree. • 4. What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree? • 5. How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line • that shows this transformation. • 6. Explain the line ‘And the laburnum subsides to empty’.