![]() ![]() As the poem begins when the “train bears west,” the poet interweaves visual imagery of nature with the mechanical imagery of a moving train to narrate the journey to readers his experience of gazing at the picturesque views of nature from a window seat of the train. “Night Journey” is a poem about a speaker’s journey by train in the middle of the night. THE RAILWAY TRAIN BY EMILY DICKINSON ANSWERS FULLRead the full text of “Night Journey” below:.Written in short lines with a clickety-clack iambic trimeter and somewhat regular rhyme scheme, this poem of twenty-seven lines gives readers the notion of a train hurtling through, making them experience the rhythmical swing of the mechanical wheels along with the speaker. The poem is replete with nature imagery conjoined with the kinesthetic and auditory images of a moving train to describe the experience of a passenger sitting by a window seat of a train and gazing at the picturesque scenes of nature. Journeys in Roethke’s poems are inextricably tied to that of life. Beneath the train ride, the scenic beauty of nature, and the noise of rail squeal, Roethke in “Night Journey” buries the sad tale of war-torn America and the cry of grief-stricken Americans. ![]() ![]() It can also be compared to an inner journey of self-discovery. The poet uses the motif of a long train journey to depict his journey of discovery of “the land” that he loves. The poem sketches the experience of a passenger traveling on a train at night. “Night Journey” was published in 1941 in Open House, Theodore Roethke’s first collection of poems. ![]()
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