[Summary of Bicycle by David Malouf The poem Bicycle presents a bicycle as a beautiful and mysterious machine. It also expresses the fear, danger and uncertainty connected with modern mechanical life. A bicycle has been kept in the bare living room of the poet’s flat. As it has come from outside and does not naturally belong to the room, the poet calls it a “stranger from the streets” and a “light-limbed traveller.” Its thin spokes resemble pi…