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13 Nov 1850 – 3 Dec 1894

Scottish writer

Well known for children’s classics

Best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses

Most famous translated author

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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.

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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 along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

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This poem is about the experience of the poet during his train travel. He has written the poem very expressively that we also travel along with him, in his railway carriage. He says that the train travelled much faster than imaginary characters like fairies and witches. He saw bridges, houses, hedges, and ditches along the way. He felt the train charged forward like troops of soldiers in a battlefield, who were ready to attack. He saw many brightly painted stations along the way, as he heard the whistles that indicated the arrival of the stations. But all these sights flew past him in a wink of an eye, because the train was speeding fast.

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The poet saw a child, scrambling up brambles to gather some blackberry fruits. He also saw a tramp who was standing and gazing at the things happening around him. Some people were stringing daisies to make garlands from it. He saw a cart that was lumping along laboriously with the weight of a man and the cartload. Finally, he saw a mill and a river. The poet saw all these sights only in a glimpse, as the train sped away - leaving the images behind them.

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Charging: rushing forward

Troops : soldiers

Driving : having great force

Clamber : to climb with difficulty

Glimpse : a momentary view

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Simile

A figure of speech that compares two different things using words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Eg; Like troops in a battle.

Alliteration

A literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound.

Eg; Faster than fairies.

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Find out the rhyming words from the poem?

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Witches-ditches

Battle-cattle

Plain-rain

Load-road

Scrambles-brambles

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Write an appreciation of the poem “From a Railway Carriage.”

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Poem - From a Railway Carriage | English Coach 5 | English Poem