The Horses The Horses by Edwin Muir describes a nuclear catastrophe and the reliance people have on technology. It describes how man would react when technology was no longer available to us. Initially people would listen for anything on the radio that would give them news‚ then they would observe the aftermath of the war‚ for example “a warship passed us‚ heading north‚ Dead bodies piled on the deck.” The narrator describes how even if the radio were to come on again‚ they would ignore it as
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O Level Literature – “Horses” by Edwin Muir The titular creatures in “Horses”‚ despite being rather ordinary animals‚ are viewed by the poet as shocking‚ overwhelming‚ and somewhat divine. Every element of these horses is made to look awe-inspring and godlike‚ inciting both reverence and fear in the poet. The opening verse depicts the horses using words like “terrible‚ “wild”‚ and “strange”‚ as well as them being “Like magic power on the stony grange”. Already‚ we are given an idea of how the
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The Horses Analysis This is a poem by Ted Hughes where he talks about a male observing a horse. The poem starts off with‚ ‘I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark’. This creates a setting of an early before sunrise‚ when the atmosphere is chilly‚ dark and gloomy. ‘Evil air‚ a frost-making stillness’. The ‘air’ is being personified suggesting that the atmosphere is cruel and unsafe. ‘Not a leaf‚ not a bird. A world cast in frost.’ The word ‘frost’ means the state of coldness sufficient
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8 Death Rides a Pale Horse “I have heard the stories that go round‚ ’bout how I lost my sight; few‚ are brave enough to ask. You‚ Little One‚ are braver than those who claim to be brave.” Charity did not respond; she was busy studying his face. She could tell that he must have been a handsome man at one time; now‚ not so much. His skin had the appearance and texture of the underside of a dried boar hide- his face‚ trenched with deep‚ fissures that reminded her of the lines on the map she saw hanging
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John Muir‚ Protecting Yosemite‚ Bedford/ St. Martin’s‚ 2011 John Muir‚ the founder of modern environmentalism‚ wrote many books on American environmentalism and was vocal in preserving America’s natural landscape. He grew up studying the natural environment and fell in love with its beauty and interconnections. He devoted his life to protecting the landscape from industrialization and the “Manifest Destiny” mentality of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Railroads quickened the expansion
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writers more passionate about the natural environment than John Muir and Edward Abbey. Both Muir in a section from his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf and Abbey in a chapter titled Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks channel anger and frustration at the environmental policies of their time into literature that argues fervently for preservation of national parks and other areas of wilderness. In Hetch Hetchy Valley‚ Muir reverently describes in vivid detail the beautiful landscape
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John Kenneth Muir analyzes the issue over the post-apocalyptic destruction‚ in which he studies the effect on human civilization by asking the viewer‚ “How many would act in the same fashion; refusing to trust "strangers" until they knew that the risk was passed?” One of the effects Muir mentions throughout the reassessment is the loss of hope for the greater good of a social club. Still‚ too much hope in society can be dangerous in the wrong hands‚ and will most likely lead to a catastrophic result
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1. The title of this poem is “Horses.” 2. It was written by Edwin Muir. 3. This poem is written in the 1st Person point of view. 4. The speaker appears to be a young man‚ reminiscing about the childhood days of his life. 5. The young man‚ who is the speaker‚ appears to be reminiscing about his childhood‚ and thinking of time long gone‚ when he was at his father’s farm‚ and everything appeared to be wondrous‚ albeit scary. 6. The poem has been set in a farmhouse‚ and in a field
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The publication of the first instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood appeared in Dickens’s weekly “All Year Round” in April 1870. It arosed wide attention from the audience for the author’s latest work “which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books (Morford 5).” At the time Dickens was writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood‚ the police force established in 1829 did not work exclusively on prevention of crime any more‚ it focused on detection too; the daily press was abounding in
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The rest of the song allows a closer look into the religious beliefs of the writer. “I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing / Roman cavalry choirs are singing / Be my mirror‚ my sword and shield / My missionaries in a foreign field.” Chris hearing the bells and choirs symbolizes his acceptance of faith or religion in a way he did not accept it before. After the loss he went through‚ it seems as though he has found religion as a way to cope. The mirror‚ sword‚ and shield also symbolize his newfound faith
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