Please some questions and answers from this poem.
SOUTH POINT HIGH SCHOOL.
CLASS VI
FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping long with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
Robert Louis Stevenson
Here's the questions
Why its said that every thing is for a glimpse and gone for ever in the poem?
Its said as the train moving so fast that the things can't be seen for a long time . The author can only see the things for a moment and then the things are gone .
According to you what is the speed of the train . Give reasons in support to your answer.
The speed of the train is very high . We can estimate the speed of the train by the following lines
In wink of an eye painted stations whistle by
Faster than fairies faster than witches
Each a glimpse and gone for ever
Why its said that every thing is for a glimpse and gone for ever in the poem?
Its said as the train moving so fast that the things can't be seen for a long time . The author can only see the things for a moment and then the things are gone .
According to you what is the speed of the train . Give reasons in support to your answer.
The speed of the train is very high . We can estimate the speed of the train by the following lines
In wink of an eye painted stations whistle by
Faster than fairies faster than witches
Each a glimpse and gone for ever