5. Fill in the summary of the poem

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The poem "From a Railway Carriage" is about the experience of the poet "R.L. Stevenson" during his . 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 . He saw bridges, houses, hedges, and  along the way. He felt the train charged forward like  of soldiers in a battlefield, who were ready to attack. He saw many brightly painted  along the way, as he heard the whistles that indicated the arrival of the stations. But all these sights flew past him in a , because the train was speeding fast.

 

 

The poet saw a child, scrambling up  to gather some blackberry fruits. He also saw a  who was standing and  at the things happening around him. Some people were stringing to make garlands from it. He saw a cart that was  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 , as the train sped away - leaving the images behind them.