The Horses :: Literary Analysis, Muir

Read the following poem by Edwin Muir from The Faber tidings of Beasts (pp.11920). Then write a short essay of no much than 600 words explaining what the poem is about and consider whether you think the poem is more traditional or dissenting. The first part of this essay will crumple the meaning of the poem called The Horses, written be Edwin Muir. Initially it would be serviceable to understand what is meant by traditional and dissenting. Traditional of, relating, or being tradition,(E. Dictionary, 2006). take issue to have a disagreement or withhold assent, (E. Dictionary, 2006).Muir, came from an isolated behind and lived around two terra firma fights, (b. May 15, 1887, Deerness, Orkney, Scot..d Jan. 3, 1959, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng), (Encyclopedia, Britannica, 2010). It is a tempting apprehension that living on a lonely island and through two world wars, heavily influenced him for the poem. Edwin Muirs poem The Horses tells the story of a devastating war on ma nkind, perhaps that of a nuclear war, that has left the world on the door of extinction, Barely a twelve month after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, (Assignment, Book, 2008). Muirs poem could be seen to parallel Genesis(Old Testament),(Encyclopedia, Britannica, 2010). A severe example of religious connotation of words, the seven days war, covenant, Eden and servitude, in the beginning and our father, (Assignment, Book, 2008). When, Muir uses the word piled in the sentence Dead bodies piled on the deck, (Assignment, Book, 2008), One has the magician that the poet wants to show the reader of the depth of disregard for the dead in the poem. It overly clearly emphasises the chaos and destruction that the war has brought upon man and that there was no time for the simplest of burials. Muir, in being rhetorical, is showing that the survivors need for a simpler conduct a purer life away from the existence of a technology impelled society that caused the seven days war. The poem shows a strong smell of irony with, Our life is changed their coming our beginning. (Assignment Book, 2008).Muir, has used alliteration and this can be seen in the repeated f in, far past our fathers land, reinforces how much man has changed and returned to a past way of life and possibly a rhyme for forefathers when trim down to far...fathers, (Assignment, Book, 2008).