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Horses by Edwin Muir This poem is about how that when Edwin was a small child his parents owned a farm and he would watch the horses.Thus, it is about a past memory which arises struggle and conflict inside the speaker's mind between dark and light , good and evil as well as purity and experience. The poem is highly symbolic one as it expresses the double aspects of nature which bares the wildness as well as innocence. The attitude of the poet in the poem is that he is scared of the horses as they frighten him as he says (They seemed terrible so wild and strange.) He starts the poem by saying that he was staring out of the window of his home and how that he was watching the horses working on the fields (Those lumbering horses in the steady plough.) Edwin seems to fear the horses...

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