Interpretation of Muir's HorsesMy interpretation of Edwin Muir's poem "Horses" is that of a past memory and the conflict and anger caused by that memory, a conflict between light and dark, good and evil in the mind of a dying old man, fearing death as he looks across a field. The memory is of a day in his past, when, as a child farm worker, he watched a team of horses plowing stubble in the field during a rainy day that became increasingly stormy. The horses made their way across the field leaving furrows, the setting sun piercing the clouds drawing images in the distance. The images grew darker and more vivid as the horses got closer. A symbolic religious conflict unfolding between good and evil with almost mythological qualities, leading to a crescendo of images that eventually fades to the old man lamenting and wishing he could be like this child, early in his life , with all the purity and innocence he had. children have. The poem has distant images of horses as in...