I'm going right back to the beginning of this thread. I had no idea that Tennyson's grooves referred to railways. Ha dhe never travelled by one? Hadn't they got as far as Lincolnshire. Having said that I think Tennyson's image works very well, worlds spinning in preordained grooves. change not up to us, it's all rather Darwinian, don't you think?
Auden as a boy was muich more interested in machines than in poetry, though I'm not sure how much that comes out - possibly in 'Night Mail'.
Of course the problem is that most of us poets dont know much about technology. I've only just learned how to send text messages.
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