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The Horses Picture an apocalyptic nightmare, set far into the future where man has finally pushed himself over the technological edge to such an extent that he leaves himself only a handful of compatriots to share his self-regret. Picture the panic and chaos ensued at battlefields across the war stricken world, as technological marvel destroys technological wonder in an abundance of innocent and worthless deaths. Picture the abandonment of the ways things used to be, in years of hard graft, manual labour, and honesty, and decency. Then, turn your attention to Edwin Muirs' superb poetic warning of the terrors that await technology and man - 'The Horses'. Written in 1952 by the Scottish poet Edwin Muir, it attempts to emphasise the somewhat neglected bond between animal and man and the simplicity of days gone by. Muir takes a narrative approach to this seemingly mammoth task, and this would appear to...

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