Horses by Edwin Muir Essay

This poem presents us with a post apocalyptic world in which evil triumphs over good and their great dominate were seraphim of gold/, Or mute ecstatic monster on the mould. Or what a child faculty believe to be the Apocalypses Perhaps some childish hour has scrape again. This is because in the first stanza he is only looking at regular horses but as he starts to watch the through the nigrify rain they start to turn evil but by the by the time the last stanza come about they start to fade away and the black field and the still standing tree return.He also constantly uses rhymes through the whole poem, it been such a basic poetry tool it infancies the opening that it might be nothing more than a childhood memory. I think its greens in the civilized West to associate this sort of revelation with childhood, as part of a immanent inheritance we lose as we grow up. The last stanza makes me think of Housmans land of lost content, merely Muirs poem is clearly suggesting something m ore than what one might call the everyday magic of a childs perspective.These horses are not simply magical, theyre elemental, totemic, numinous. If we take these presences to have been part of the common life of farming in Orkney in the late 19th century, then it should be borne in judicial decision that Muir wasnt cut off from this particular source by time alone, but by regularise and culture. He said that in moving from Orkney to Glasgow he aged about 150 years, and he was not being jocular.