Question

Discuss the speaker of the poem and what the speaker appears to be doing. Also, identify where or when the first-person pronoun is used in the poem "The Railway Train"

Answer 1

The author of this poem seems to be talking about a horse but it's actually talking about a train. She describes the ride this train makes but when you're reading you feel she's talking about a horse because of the words she uses. In this poem, the first person is used in the first sentence "I like to see it lap the miles" because it is said that she's talking about how technology (the train) appeared and affected the place where she lived, also considered as progress.

Step-by-step explanation:

To complete this exercise, you have to read the poem "The Railway Train" written by Emily Dickinson, a very famous poet from the United States, and then answer the questions. The poem was published in 1892 although she died many years before its publication, in 1886.