Question

why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet ? ( from the laburnum top poem )

Answer 1

POEM : LABURNUM TOP

POET : TED HUGHES

THE image of the engine is evoked in the poem because as the engine provides working efficiency to the machines similarly the bird Goldfinch , also provides food as an engine to her young ones to nourish them and feed them for their growth.

Answer 2

The image of the engine is evoked by the poet as an engine is a source of providing energy which enables the machines to run. The energy of the bird has been compared with that of a machine as she is also a source of providing energy to her family. The bird is the engine of her family who helps her family to run and survive. As without the engine any machine cannot work, in the same way, the family of the bird cannot live without the bird.