Railroads

         The invention of railroads and trains must’ve struck people very hard and change their lives very drastically for it to change them physiologically and also revolutionize the arts and ways of communicating.

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel

           I agree in how something beautifully engineered can be taken as art. There’s a certain joy from things that just work properly, and to that you add the great leap and the great design and it was and still is undoubtedly a piece of art.

           As it changed how people lived their lives, it also changed how they saw things and therefore it spawned new types of art, changed the landscapes and caused the contemporary artists to respond.

           JMW Turner’s response is with his same style very abstract and faded.

• Jones Very

              He gives the impression as if the train was a ‘he’ and was alive and he doesn’t sound so obscure, not nearly as Poe.

• Emily Dickinson

                Emily Dickinson’s response toward railroads is a bit weird because in her poems it doesn’t say specifically that she is talking about trains, one must infer. Also she describes it very inaccurately, but then again, this was such a huge leap that she referred to trains as iron horses.