“Tractor,” by Ted Hughes, is a poem with nine irregular stanzas with no rhyme scheme. In his first stanza, there are many examples of paradox as cold substances are paired with adjectives used to describe heat as in “molten ice, smoking snow” (4) and “white heat of numbness” (6). In addition, I noticed that Hughes made use of sibilants in “smoking snow” (4) as both words start with the letter s. This poetic device is also used in “sleetier snow, blow smokily” (15). Furthermore, the poet used alliteration in “buttock-bones, bites” (24) and in “degrees, deepening” (18). In the second stanza, Hughes made use of similes as he wrote “hands are like wounds already” (9). Two other similes are found in lines 21, 22 and 37. Hughes also incorporated personification into his writing as he described the tractor to have “just cough[ed]” (28), and when it just “stands” (35). In addition, he used personification when he wrote “Shouting Where Where?” (42) and “Streaming with sweat” (54). I also noticed that there is a juxtaposition that contrasts sadness and happiness when Hughes wrote “And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly / Into happy life” (33-34). The poet also used repetition in his poem as seen in “hammering and hammering” (31). Moreover, onomatopoeia can be found in the line “the copse hisses” (13), and when he described the tractor to have “jabber[ed] laughing pain-crying mockingly” (33). Lastly, Hughes made use of visual, aural and tactile imagery in his poem. An example of visual imagery can be seen when the “ lamb / nudge[s] its solid-frozen mother” (22-23). Aural imagery can be heard when the “wheels screeched” (48). Lastly, tactile imagery can be felt in the line “as if the toe-nails were all just torn off” (11). Not only does Hughes use a number of rhetorical devices to give life to the poem, but he also plays around with his form of writing and incorporates rhythm. I find it interesting that the 7th and 8th stanzas both start with a body part and suddenly the line breaks. The subsequent lines have no punctuations. Similarly, there are no punctuations in between words, and all three words are capitalized in the line “Shouting Where Where?” (42). Furthermore, line 55 of the last stanza has rhythm, and it contains three consecutive verbs which I found to be quite significant. Lastly, there is an internal rhyme in the line “cracks