... molten ice', smoking snow pours into its steel', which suggests that the cold air is rising off the steel. In the poem it also says 'at white heat of numbness it stands'. The word 'heat' is used in this instance because the freezing temperature makes it seem as though the tractor has frost bite which makes it seem hot, this is a form of personification. The fact that Hughes adopts personification and uses it to describe the tractor makes the battle against the weather seem more interesting so it makes you feel sorry for it as though it had feelings. In the poem it says 'the battery is alive- but like a lamb', this portrays that the battery is as week as a lamb which can be inferred. Also this is because the snow and the wind have frozen it. These are examples of how the weather is domineering although ...

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