Question

From a Railway Carriage by R. L. Stevenson
1. Quote the lines containing the two similes in the first stanza. Explain the similies.
2. What words has the poet used to show the speed with which the 'painted stations' pass by?

Answer 1

1 From a Railway Carriage. Robert Louis Stevenson. Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and ... Lumping along with man and load; And here is a mill and there is a river: Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

2 The poet sees a changing scene from the railway carnage. He sees a large number of things. They include: bridges, houses, ditches, meadows, horses, cattle, hills, plains,

painted stations, cart, a child, a tramp, mills and rivers, etc.