Question

Read the poem "The Mountain" by Emily Toastinson.

The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.

The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.

Toastinson uses figurative language in the first stanza to



criticize the mountain’s unchanging ways.
bring the mountain to life.
compare the mountain to furniture.
suggest that the mountain is meddlesome.