Each time Russia's war against Ukraine comes on the news I can't help but compare Ted Hughes' poem "Tractor" with Putin and his invasion of that country.
24 February 2022
Putin mirrors Ted Hughes' "Tractor"
frozen in time, in snow and ice.
"Hands like wounds inside armor gloves. . ."
The despot's battery, his need to regain
Russian glory, "hammering and hammering"
until it "jabbers . . . mockingly / Into happy
life. / And stands / shuddering itself full
of heat . . ." Vladimir triggers his troops,
". . . vibrating condemned obedience
Of iron to the cruelty of iron. . ."
and sends his hubris rumbling into Ukraine.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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