From A Railway Carriage - Questions and Answers(Appreciation Questions)

 

"From A Railway Carriage"

                        - Robert Louis Stevenson

Read the lines and answer the questions given below.

 

1. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

 Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

 

a.     What is faster than fairies and witches?

The train is faster than fairies and witches.

 

b.     Why does the poet mention ‘bridges and houses, hedges and ditches’? Where are they?

The poet mentions them because we can see them during the travel by train. They are on the way of journey.

 

2. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,      

All by himself and gathering brambles;

 

a.    Where do you think the child is?

The child is in a place with plants and bushes

 

b.    What does ‘gathering brambles’ mean?

‘Gathering brambles’ means collecting berries

 

 

3. And ever again, in the wink of an eye,      

Painted stations whistle by.

 

a.    ‘In the wink of an eye’ means very quickly. Explain ‘painted stations whistle by’.

The train moves so fast that it crosses the stations which are painted in a second with a whistle sound.

 

4. Each a glimpse and gone forever;

a.    What is ‘each’ over here? Why is it gone forever?

The word ‘each’ refers to the places and things which the train crosses. They are seen only for a very short time and it is gone forever as they cannot be seen again