The Horses :: Literary Analysis, Muir

Read the following poem by Edwin Muir from The Faber Book of Beasts (pp.11920). because write a short essay of no more than 600 spoken communication explaining what the poem is about and consider whether you think the poem is more traditionalistic or dissenting. The first part of this essay will analyse the essence of the poem called The Horses, written be Edwin Muir. Initially it would be useful to consider what is meant by traditional and dissenting. Traditional of, relating, or being tradition,(E. Dictionary, 2006). Dissenting to cod a disagreement or withhold assent, (E. Dictionary, 2006).Muir, came from an isolated place and lived some two world wars, (b. May 15, 1887, Deerness, Orkney, Scot..d Jan. 3, 1959, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng), (Encyclopedia, Britannica, 2010). It is a tempting thought that existent on a lonely island and through two world wars, heavy influenced him for the poem. Edwin Muirs poem The Horses tells the story of a devastating war on mankind , possibly that of a nuclear war, that has left the world on the brink of extinction, Barely a twelve month after The seven days war that cast off the world to sleep, (Assignment, Book, 2008). Muirs poem could be seen to parallel Genesis(Old Testament),(Encyclopedia, Britannica, 2010). A good good example of religious connotation of words, the seven days war, covenant, Eden and servitude, in the antecedent 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 sensation that the poet wants to record the reader of the depth of disregard for the dead in the poem. It also all the way emphasises the chaos and destruction that the war has brought upon man and that there was no fourth dimension for the simplest of burials. Muir, in being rhetorical, is showing that the survivors need for a simpler life a purer life away from the existence of a technology driven golf club that caused the seven days war. The poem shows a strong sense of raillery 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 former(prenominal) our fathers land, reinforces how much man has changed and returned to a past way of life and possibly a rhyme for forefathers when reduced to far...fathers, (Assignment, Book, 2008).