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What is the central metaphor, or comparison, in the last stanza? the railway train

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The whole poem is really a metaphor in which the locomotive is compared to a kind of super- horse which is "docile and omnipotent". Miss Dickinson sees that man has harnessed the power of this huge locomotive and made it as obedient to his will as a thoroughbred race horse.

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Answer:its cool

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