The Horses Analysis Flashcards
Who admired the work and was the former Poet Laureate of the United States?
Robert Pinsky
Who wrote The Horses?
Edwin Muir
What was the timeline of Edwin Muir’s life?
1887-1959
The Horses begins with imagery of what?
A catastrophic military conflict that ends with a vision of a post-industrial future in which humans and animals are reconciled
What do the closing lines imagine?
The end of alienation high has been clearly associated with technology and artifice
How can the Horses be read compared to Steamboats Viaducts and Railways?
As an antithetical tone to it
What does The Horses and Passage to India share?
A prophetic vision of a future world in which alienation and difference are reconciled
In this work what unites the world?
An apocalypse that smashes the “old bad world” and reconciles humanity with the animal kingdom - and with itself
Which book of the bible was said apocalypse predicted in?
The last book of the New Testament; Revelation of John
What does apocalypse mean in the Old Testament of the Bible?
A moment of intense spiritual insight
What has the term apocalypse mean for devout Christians?
The complete victory over good and evil
What did the term apocalypse refer to in the Cold War era?
A nuclear holocaust
How does the speaker of the work describe the apocalypse?
Retrospectively
The Horses can be describes as a post apocalyptic ______.
Poem
The Horses offers hope of returning to a ________ mode of life after the apocalypse.
Pastoral
