Question

Discuss the relationship between sound devices and imagery in “The Railway Train.”

The Railway Train
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.

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Answer 1

The poem uses alliteration to generate imagery. The words horrid and hooting create a visual image of the creature's wild nature. Another example of alliteration includes the words like, lap, and lick. The words lap and lick help the reader imagine the train as a living creature.

The poem also uses consonance to create imagery in the poem. In the line "In shanties by the sides of roads;" the consonant sound s is repeated at the end in the words shanties, sides, and roads. These words help the reader to visualize the surroundings through which the train passes.

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Answer 2

The use of sound devices such as 'In horrid, hooting stanza' shows that the train is very loud, which is connected to the imagery of 'then chase itself down hill'. A railway train is typically extremely audible, so Dickinson described it in a way that made the reader understand this. We can visualize a train making lots of noise and travelling quickly down hill with her use of sound devices and imagery.

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