Question

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

Answer 1

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The way a train makes horses stop to watch them go by.... Should be the correct answer for this sentence describing And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is: "The way a train moves along mountains and through cities".

Step-by-step explanation:

Emily Dickinson wrote this poem and published around 1891. The poem depicts an "iron horse", which is a railroad engine called that way by North American Indians in reference to the first train they had ever seen. Therefore, the poem describes "the way a train moves along mountains and through cities". Along the whole stanzas, it is possible to identify Nature elements concerned with wild life and horses, compared to city lifestyle and the role a train has played around them. The speaker uses natural elements to whether refer to wild life, with valleys, mountains, hills, or to refer to roads, tanks, a stable door, and more. By comparison, a horse living background is changed by lines and stanzas with an "iron horse".