FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
SUMMARY OF “FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE”:
The poet
presented the view of beautiful sceneries of beautiful world from a window of a
fast moving train, which one enjoys and watches in single glance all the
beautiful scenes of our world like bridges, bushes, houses, trenches, moves in
such a fast that one can see them in the wink of an eye. These entire scene
moves so fast, as if group of soldiers passing quickly through the farms and
fields. Then the poet compares the movement of the scenes with the spreading
drops of drops of heavy rain.
When the
train passes through the green valleys and villages, a child is seen there, who
is trying to climb up difficulty. A man also stops to watch the fast moving
train. A bull cart carrying load is seen to be moving slowly. The scenes of
rivers and wind mills also passes by and provides the poet, a sight of beauty
and then becomes out of sight, forever.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q01: Who has written the poem “From A
Railway Carriage”?
Ans. The poem “From A Railway Carriage” is
written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He is a famous Scottish novelist, poet and
essayist.
Q02: What is the central idea of the
poem “From A Railway Carriage”?
Ans. The poem gives an idea of a busy and
fast moving life in his poem. From where
everyone can enjoy the beauty of nature in wink of an eye. The fast moving
train is actually our industrial life where no one has the time to stop and
enjoy but the thing we can do is in our fast struggling life is to view the
beauty of nature in a wink of an eye without pausing for a second and
appreciates in our hearts all that
passes by and all that which never returns.
Q03: What pleasure does a poet get
while travelling in a railway carriage?
Ans. The railway journey gives a lot of
pleasure to the poet. He gets pleasure from the beautiful sight of nature of
nature and houses and ditches. The sight of meadows, horses , cattle, hills,
and palms carrying load. The sight of wind mill and also a river also attracts
him.
Q04: What does the poet sees from the
Railway Carriage?
Ans. The poet sees the natural scenes from
the railway carriage. He sees bridges,
houses, ditches, meadows, cattle, horses, hills, plains, from his
railway carriage. The poet also enjoys beautiful sights of a child climbing up
with the difficulty a tramp gazing a rushing train and wind mill a river and
many other railway stations during his journey.
Q05: What is a tramp? What was the
tramp doing when the railway carriage passed by?
Ans. Tramp is a homeless person who goes
from place to place and wonders aimlessly. When the train was passing. Tramp
started to gauze the fast rushing train.
Q06: What are Brambles? What was the
child doing when the Railway Carriage passed by?
Ans. Brambles are thorny bushes which bear
the fruit called black berries. When the train carriage passed by, the poet saw
the child moving with difficulty and collecting black berries from the
brambles.
IDOMS:
All in –
There are four eggs in the baskets.
All at once-
It started raining at the same time.
All about- Its all about rampant corruption in the country.
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