I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself downhill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop--docile and omnipotent--
At its own stable door.

by Emily Dickinson
  THE RAILWAY TRAIN this poem written by Emily Dickinson. This poem is a short poem .This poem published in 1891. Emily Dickinson described an “Iron horse” or “Railroad engine” and it’s a train. This type of poem children’s favorite. In this poem many metaphor use .In poem Dickinson deals with metaphor of the train as an “Iron horse”. This poem divided in to the 4 stanza. This poem described a railroad and its train metaphor that suggest an “Docile” and “Omnipotent” .The train “laps the miles “ and “licks up the valleys” then stops to “feed itself “ at long the way. It passes the mountain with a “prodigious step”, “peering in to shanties” metaphor is thought “snobbish” animal employed as a metaphor ending employed as a metaphor decidedly a horse which neigh and stop at “stable door”. “Horrid hooting stanza” is the trains whistle. Mountain is the principal of the subjects in this poem. In this poem Railroad the symbol of the progress. In this poem use the so many figures of speech like: simile: “I Like to see it lap the wise” In this use the simile and Alliteration:                                                                     -- on first stanza:-Like, lap, lick

Second stanza: - Supercilious, Shanties, sides

Third stanza: - Horrid, Hooting          

Forth stanza: - 1. Star, stop, stable

                          2. Docile and door

This poem appropriate I .A. Richards: The figurative language.