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Read “The Railway Train” by Emily Dickinson. Which line suggests that the train has horse-like qualities?

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.

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Answer:

its c

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because it is

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Answer:

And neigh like Boanerges;

Step-by-step explanation:

To neigh is the sound made by a horse. The poetess , on the line above, has personified the train as if it were a horse. When the train is about to arrive at a station, it blows a whistle , which sounds as it were a horse neighing. Besides, Emily Dickinson has pictured the horse's sound as if it were coming from the son of the Thorn God. All these literary devices make the train sound like a strong and brave divinity.

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