"i like to see it lap the miles" by emily dickinson i like to see it lap the miles, and lick the valleys up, and stop to feed itself at tanks; and then, prodigious, step around a pile of mountains, and, supercilious, peer in shanties by the sides of roads; and then a quarry pare bolded part: to fit its sides, and crawl between, complaining all the while in horrid, hooting stanza; then chase itself down hill and neigh like boanerges; then, punctual as a star, stop—docile and omnipotent— at its own stable door. this poem describes a train as if it were a horse. examine the imagery of the stanza in bold. what does it describe? the rumbling a train makes as it passes by the smell of train tracks after a train has gone the sound a train makes as it blows its horn the feeling of being on a train for a vacation