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Read the following poem and answer the question that follows.

"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 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?

A) The way a train moves along mountains and through cities
B) The way a train makes horses stop to watch them go by
C) The way a train sounds when it rumbles past a building
D) The way a train has made horse-drawn carriages useless

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I think it would be A
User Akrem
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it's fine, I haven't really done anything like this in a long time since I'm in college. But I'm thinking A (not 100% about this)
User Hitesh Dhamshaniya
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