“The wind sang through his iron fingers. His
great iron head, shaped like a dustbin but as
big as a bedroom, slowly turned to the right,
slowly turned to the left. His iron ears turned,
this way, that way. He was hearing
the sea. His eyes, like headlamps,
glowed white, then red, then infa-red, searching the sea.
Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea…” – Ted Hughes
