Question

PLEASE HELP & EXPLAIN WHY!

"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 stanza 3. What does it describe? 

A.) The rumbling a train makes as it passes by
B.) The smell of train tracks after a train has gone
C.) The sound a train makes as it blows its horn
D.) The feeling of being on a train for a vacation

Answer 1

Your answer would be C! :)

Answer 2

The correct answer is: [C]: "The sound a train makes as it blows it horn."
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Note: Refer to the following text:
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"...In horrid, hooting stanza.." [emphasis added].
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The word: "hooting" — refers to the "sound" [of a "train"] ; especially in context with the full text of the rest of the full third stanza of the poem.
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