Question

Describe how Stephen Spender blends imagination and reality in the poem The Express

Answer 1

Stephen Spender is an excellent poet. He blends both imagination and reality by describing the train express in contrast to nature and era.  

Explanation:

• He uses various metaphors and other parts of speech to enhance this amalgamation.

• The era he describes in the poem are modern romantic and industrial. Black statements of pistons, like a Queen, etc are some of his contrasts in the poem.

• This 4 stanza poem also uses nature to intensify certain things like the train singing etc.