Question

Read these lines from the poem: And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; What is the train doing in these lines?

Answer 1

We can say that the train is running through the tunnel while noisily whistling.

Step-by-step explanation:

Emily Dickenson's poem "The Railway Train" talks about a train that is moving through mountains and valleys. The poem, spoken by an unknown narrator, personifies the train and presents it as some super-horse and "docile and omnipotent" when needed.

In the given lines from the poem, the speaker presents the train as moving through a narrow tunnel while "hooting". The particular lines show the train moving along the tracks, running through the pass whistling in a "horrid, hooting" way.

So, we can say that the train is running through the tunnel while noisily whistling.