Muir's Interpretation of HorsesMy interpretation of Edwin Muir's poem entitled "Horses" is that of a past memory and of the conflict and anger provoked by this memory, a conflict between light and darkness, good and evil in the mind of a dying elderly man, who fears death as he looks across a field. The memory is that of a day in his past, when as a child farm worker he observed a team of horses plowing the stubble and bringing it back to the field during a rainy day that progressively became stormier. The horses move back and forth across the field leaving furrows, the light of the setting sun breaks through the clouds highlighting distant images. The images became darker and more vivid as the horses approached. A symbolic religious conflict between good and evil is represented with almost mythological qualities, which leads to a crescendo of images that end up fading into the old man who complains and wishes to be like that child, at the beginning of his life with all the purity and the innocence that characterize him. children have. The poem has the distant images of horses as a...