How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
And stop to feed itself at Tanks — (3)
This is an intriguing image of the train being refueled. Interestingly, the speaker doesn't describe the train being fed by human hands, but instead gives this amazing technology a kind of autonomy or agency.
Quote #2
And supercilious peer
In Shanties — by the sides of Roads — (6-7)
Oh dear. Feeling high and mighty, are we? The train's inner life is filled out more here; it seems to feel a kind of superiority to the inhabitants of the shanties (humans). What might this imply about the relationship of technology to its inventors?