The Laburnum Top | NCERT | CBSE | HORNBILL | 10+1 ENGLISH CORE |Explanation in Hindi|
By - Ted Hughes
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| Laburnum |
About the poet:
Edward James Hughes was an
English poet and children's writer.
He was born in Mytholmroyd, in
the West Riding district of
Yorkshire, England on August 17,
1930. His childhood was quiet and
dominantly rural.
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| Ted Hughes |
After high school, Hughes entered
the Royal Air Force and served for
two years as a ground wireless
mechanic. He then moved to
Cambridge to attend Pembroke College on an academic
scholarship. While in college he
published a few poems and
studied mythologies extensively
Hughes graduated from
Cambridge in 1954.
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Hughes was married to an
American Poet Sylvia Plath in
1956. He lived in Massachusetts
with Plath and taught at University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. They
returned to England in 1959, and
their first child, Freida, was born the following year. Their second
child, Nicholas, was born two
years later.
In 1962, Hughes left Plath as he
was in affair with another woman
Assia Gutmann Wevill. Less than a
year later, Plath committed
suicide. Hughes did not write
again for years, as he focused all
of his energy on editing and
promoting Plath's poems.
In 1965, Wevill gave birth to their
only child, Shura. Four years later,
like Plath, she also commited
suicide, killing Shura as well. The
following year, in 1970, Hughes
married Carol Orchard, with whom
he remained married until his death
Hughes won many of Europe's
highest literary honors, and was
appointed Рoet Laureate of
England in 1984, a post he held
until his death. He passed away in
October 28, 1998, in Devonshire,
England, from cancer.
Explanation of poem | The Laburnum Top
Stanza wise explanation of poem
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| Goldfinch |
1. The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
in the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen
Explanation:
In the opening stanza Laburnum (a kind of tree ) is described as silent and still. There is no movement at all in the tree. It is an afternoon of September month, almost prior to autumn. Sunlight is yellow and Laburnum leaves are also yellowish as they are almost ready to fall. All its seeds have fallen already. |
| Striped face of goldfinch |
Explanation in Hindi:
इस poem के शुरू में अमलताश के पेड़ को शान्त और स्थिर बताया गया है । पेड़ में किसी भी तरह की कोई हलचल नहीं है। सिंतबर महीने की दोपहर का समय है। धूप भी पीली दिखाई पड़ रही है। कुछ पते पीले हो रहे हैं तथा सारे बीज गिर चुके हैं।Aunt Jennifer's Tigers| Explanation in Hindi
इस तरह से अमलताश का पेड़ बेजान सा प्रतीत होता है जिसमें किसी तरह की कोई हलचल नही है क्योंकि अभी तक गोल्डफिन्च इस पेड़ पर नहीं पहुंची है। पतझड़ में पते भी पीले होकर गिरने वाले हैं।
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| Goldfinch with food |
2. Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddeness, 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 of tremor of wings, and trillings
Explanation:
Suddenly goldfinch - a small sparrow - surprises us by landing on a branch end which makes 'twitching' sound. While doing so it jerks its body. looking shiny like that of a lizard, goldfinch enters thethickness of branches and yellow leaves in a alert and abrupt manner. It enters quickly into the thickness where it has built its best to house its young ones. As soon as it reaches to its nest , baby sparrows starts making sounds 'chitterings' and 'trillings' and flatters their wings. This seems as though machine has started. It is the machine of her family.
Explanation in Hindi
तभी गोल्डफिन्च अचानक ही पेड़ की टहनी पर आकर बैठ जाती है। यह अपने शरीर को हिलाती हुई आवाज़ करती है। छिपकली की तरह नरम मुलायम दिखने वाली गोल्डफिन्च बड़ी चुस्ती और फुर्ती से पेड़ की घनी शाखाओं और पत्तों में प्रवेश करती है जहाँ उसका घोंसला है। उसे देखते ही उसके बच्चे जोर से आवाज करने लग जाते है , अपने पंखों को खोल कर फड़फड़ाते हैं। इस वजह से पेड़ भी जैसे रोमांचित होकर हिलने लगता है। ऐसा लगता है जैसे कोई मशीन चल पड़ी हो। यहाँ मशीन का काल्पनिक चित्र प्रस्तुत किया है ।Ramshehar Fort Resort | Top Tourist Places to Visit in Himachal Pradesh ...
3. The 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:
When the young babies makes so much noise by their chirping and flattering of their wings, the tree also starts moving or shaking. It looks like that it has thrilled by the sound of goldfinch's family. ( here 'personification' figure of speech has used in which human qualities and traits ' thrills' and 'trembles' are attributed to a non living thing ( tree).As engine is to run a machine, goldfinch is to her family. Engine is source of energy to run machine. Goldfinch is also source of energy to her family and the tree as well. It brings food to her babies and feeds them to their full. Without goldfinch and her family, tree is silent and still and seems dead. The family of goldfinch provides it life by making it tremble and providing thrill. Tree also gives shelter to goldfinch's family from predators. So two way relationship between goldfinch's family and tree is seen here . (A beautiful imagery of engine has created here. As engine is needed to run a machine , goldfinch also served the same work by providing them energy ). After feeding her babies , it comes out of the thickness and sit on a branch end. Now her barred face is visible which serves its identity. It looks like a mask which is known as its hallmark.
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Explanation in Hindi
सारा पेड़ जैसे रोमांचित होकर काँपने लगता है। यह उसके परिवार का इंजन है। इस इंजन में यह भोजन रूपी ईंधन डालती है और अपने बच्चों को भरपेट खिलाती है। खिलाने के बाद वह फुदक कर फिर टहनी के सिरे पर बैठ जाती है। अब उसका धारियों वाला चेहरा दिखाई पड़ता है जो मुखोटे की तरह प्रतीत होता है। ये मास्क इसकी पहचान है।
4. Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty
Explanation:
Now goldfinch makes a mysterious whistle sound as if it is an indication to her young babies that she is now going away and they should not make more noise of their 'chitterings' and 'trillings'. She does this slowly like a whisper. She now fly away to an unknown place to find some more food to her babies before they get hungry again.Being flown away from the tree, Laburnum Top once again becomes silent and still as it was before .
Explanation in Hindi
तव बहुत ही रहस्यमयी सीटी बजाती हुई, धीरे से चहचहाते हुए , किसी अज्ञात स्थान के लिये उड़कर चली जाती है। धीमी आवाज में शायद वह अपने बच्चों को सन्देश देती है कि वह जा रही है और वे अब और शोर न करें ताकि कोई शिकारी पक्षी उनके घोषले को न देख ले। गोल्डफिन्च के जाने के बाद एकबार फिर से पेड़ शांत और स्थिर हो जाता है जैसे इस पेड़ की शाखाओं में कुछ है ही नहीं। इस प्रकार पेड़ poem के शुरू और अंत में एक जैसा ही दिखता है।Tourist Places in India | Naina Devi Temple
Summary of poem | The Laburnum Top
In short, poem shows the relationship between goldfinch's family and the tree. Without it tree is silent and still which seems lifeless. Tree provides place to house her family. When baby birds make sounds of chittering and trilling , Tremor their wings in excitement; the whole tree trembles. It has got life too it seems.कहीं आपके बच्चे नशा तो नही करते?
Word Meaning:
Laburnum Top : (अमलताश) The top of the laburnum tree - its highest branches
Goldfinch : Wild canary - A small, yellow bird - The male of the species has black markings across the face, on the wings and tail.
Twitch : (हिलते हुये) Small, often involuntary movement of a body part
Chirrup : (पक्षी की आवाज) An onomatopoeic word capturing the sound made by a bird
Startlement : (हैरान करना) Amazement - a sudden unexpected action which causes surprise
Sleek : (नर्म चमकदार) Smooth - In the context of the poem, it could imply a quick movement without much disruption.
Abrupt : (अचानक) Sudden or unexpected
Chittering : (पक्षी की आवाज की नकल) An onomatopoeic word capturing bird sounds
Tremor : ( फड़फड़ाना) Shiver - shake
Trillings : (आवाज की नकल) Singing repeatedly - In the context of the poem, an onomatopoeic word, capturing bird sounds
Stokes : (भरना) Adds fuel - In the context of the poem, the goldfinch feeds its family, providing the fuel (nutrition) that the machine (the bird's family) needs to be energetic
Flirts : (उछलकर) In the context of the poem, move abruptly or jerkily with light steps
Eerie : ( डरी, रहस्यमयी) Strange in a frightening or mysterious way
Infinite : ( अज्ञात) In the context of the poem, the sky
Launches : (उड़ जाती है) In the context of the poem, flies
Subsides : ( दोबारा उसी अवस्था मे ) Returns, reduces in intensity
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