Ilike to see it Lap the Miles" by Emily Dickinson ke to see it tap 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
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? (10 points)
1) The way a train moves along mountains and through cities
2) The way a train makes horses stop to watch them go by
3) The way a train sounds when it rumbles past a building
4) The way a train has made horse-drawn carriages useless