Read the poem "The Mountain" by Emily Dickinson. 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. Dickinson 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. Mark this and return Save and Exit Next