The text under analyses belongs to the pen of Eleanor Farjeon. She was famous for delightful and distinctive poems for children. She had sensitiveness to beauty and had true understanding of the essential quality of romance.
The text under analyses is about a man, Anthony by name, who read a morning paper and was faced with an article “A Minor Mystery” which was about a train who broke on the half way to the place of destination. Anthony begin to imagine that he was present at that place and he also wander about the beauty of the nature. So we can present the theme of the text. It is Man and Nature. As for the type of narration we are faced with 3rd person narration with some elements of represented speech.
The text begins at the moment when Andrew was skipping his newspaper. From the first sentence we came to know that for him all usual things were uninterested as for other people. Such things as industry, politics and publicity life. But the author uses here metonymical periphrases Home Rails, Questions in the House, Three-Piece Suits. We can prove this fact with the help of such word as skipping, epithet bewildered but for other people all these articles were vital. Moreover we see that all people for Andrew were as a mass because the author uses here such periphrases as by different orders of mind from his and simile they slipped as through gauze.
The fact that really touched his mind was the sentence Mouchard (near the Jura Mountains). It was written in the newspaper. Such phrases as Jura Mountains… Blue smoke… a blue- eyed Alsation…a concertina… the Blue Alsatian Express…many miles from nowhere…hay-making damsels in white sunbonnets… hayrakes.. .laughing at us… bore in his mind and he was wandering about it. It seems as the stream of consciousness in course of reading. The next figure that he kept in mind was the title of the article “A Minor Mystery”. The author writes it in the middle of the line. So we can conclude that