Summary of the poem from a railway carriage by robert louis stevenson
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In the poem "A Railway Carriage" by Robert Louis Stevenson the rhythm of the poem echoes with the rhythm of the train. The rhyme scheme suggests the presence of repetition in the poem. The poem is about the experience of a railway journey of a boy using the rhythm of verse. the poet explains the train's speed and the natural scenes which he looks from the railway carriage. The poet compares the speed of the train with the way the fairies fly and the movement of the witches. he says the train moves faster than them. The movement of the train seems as if the soldiers are marching on the battlefield. The train everything behind itself and moves on its track. He concludes his poem by analyzing that the scenes which he had seen from the window of the train would never come back to him.
The poem ‘From a Railway Carriage’ sums up a railway journey, as seen through the eyes of a young child. The child is excited to travel by train and it takes in the beauty of the surrounding countryside, as the train speeds by. It sees beautiful flowers, painted railway stations, children, tramps, men and women, but they are all gone in the wink of an eye, as the train whizzes by.
‘From a Railway Carriage’ is a poem by British novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894).