Show famous poem it is tho sentiment says arlo bates in tho atlantic and not tho object which arouses sympathy and hindlea the imagination no mistake could be more complete than to suppose that in this poem is to be found any argument in favor of the use of machinery as mar aerial for poetry in mcandrews McAndrew 8 hymn it is the character of the stanch old engineer and his feelings by which the reader is moved the wonders of the great engine are a hindrance and not a help if they are at in any way other than through the eyes of mcandrew the piece succeeds or fails to tho degree in which it makes his emotion real and contagious to the reader and that too as emotion pure and simple quite without regard to what has excited it in so far as the attention is caught by tail rod crank throws feeding pump and dynamos finely suggestive as is the epithet in this last the emotional effect is weakened at the expense of the intellectual |