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The Rain Horse By Ted Hughes.
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The Rain Horse By Ted Hughes 1. Before he sees the horse, the narrator is feeling confused and angry; "...anger against himself for blundering into this mud-trap..." As you can see from another word in the sentence, 'blundering', the narrator's anger against himself has made him clumsy, and 'blundering' is a very clumsy word. At this point, the narrator is feeling confused because he cannot decide whether to go round a longer journey, or take a shortcut through a farm. It seems as though he has a bad history with the farmer, because he talks of being called a trespasser; "...or shouted at as a trespasser deterred him..." 2. The sense of fear and mystery surrounding the horse is given because the writer uses many similes to describe it; "...running on its toes like a cat, like a dog up to no good...like a nightmarish leopard..." Because the horse is far away from him, he can only give...
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