Friday, January 3, 2003

From A Railway Carriage Comments

Rating: 3.7

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:
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Femi Ogunlude 13 May 2024

The poem is a description of the poet's personal experience and his observations as an onlooker. Compare this poem to Robert Frost's FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY... you'll find out we are all guilty of this kind of reportage. A lovely poem.

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Yes, dear poet, I felt, on reading the poem, that

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iqnArjvn 16 December 2020

" Find and copy the word that means " see for a moment" ." where? ? ?

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tfyjyijt 17 July 2020

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Jivraaj arora 09 July 2020

Very good I liked it.

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Shaun Cronick 20 June 2020

A great poem by the great writer and poet. A poem to knock your socks off and a poem to never tire of rereading. So many gathered and great images, superb!

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costantino 29 February 2020

The poem makes me feel if i am in a train

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Paul White 18 March 2019

Learnt this as a child over 60yrs ago, great to re-discover it again

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Shivangi Buzarbaruah 09 October 2018

I am from class 4 and I have this poem in my text book and we are doing this chapter now.Our teacher told us to learn this poem So, I got help for learn the poem THANK YOU

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unicorn 13 November 2018

oh i did this this for handwriting in year 5

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Pam woof 04 October 2018

I first read this poem as a young child. It captured my imagination and the rhythm of the lines is just like a steam train. I fell in love with it then and I still love now aged 65.

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VARSHA 27 September 2018

This is a great poem I love it so much

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charlotte 11 September 2018

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Helen 14 August 2018

Said this poem every year on st davids day in primary school

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Abhimanyu 09 July 2018

I love this poem

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Babita saha 20 April 2018

I liked this poem

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Ma zaid 10 December 2017

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Gn Rao 26 June 2017

I like this poem simple and very nice.

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Victoria Christina Royaldo 18 September 2015

This poem is brilliant. it feels like one is on the train.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 05 March 2015

Extraordinary speed implied so...so skilfully within space between words, Marvelous. Lucidity the main criteria to communicate the flying expression...may it be the conscious withdrawal from the existing material world. Unique and unique forever. Pranab k c

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Kim Barney 05 March 2015

Captivating is how I would describe it. On reading the first line I thought it was a poem just for children, but I must be a child at heart because I was caught up in the magic of this one. The words fit together almost like the sound of the train itself, moving down the line.

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