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The poem, "The Horses" by "Edwin Muir" is mainly about the effects of nuclear war and the adaptability mankind needs to survive them.
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Critical Response The poem, "The Horses" by "Edwin Muir" is mainly about the effects of nuclear war and the adaptability mankind needs to survive them. In this essay, I will write about the effective features the poem contains. These include structure, imagery, rhyme, rhythm and word order. I thought this was a great poem and these features help me come to that conclusion and make the poem worth reading. First of all, I'll look at and explain the structure of certain parts of the poem. Here is an interesting example of unusual line structure in this poem: 'The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.' In this line, semi-colons break up the three separate parts. This conveys the panic and tension of the distraught survivors as they fumble hopelessly to receive a signal. The semi-colons indicate suspense as they try to do something to help themselves. Also, looking at the poem as a whole, the...
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