Friday, January 3, 2003

The Horses Comments

Rating: 3.9

Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
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Edwin Muir
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archie paget 08 December 2022

magic this gets more than i do. oh wait i get none: (

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Funny Little guy 13 December 2022

skill issue

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Dick Sniffer 06 December 2022

Ah, a lady approaches Gentleman, stand down Chivalry is dead, I should know, I killed it!

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Dick Sniffer 06 December 2022

Who's that, dressed to the nines No clue, is that a disguise? With a classy suit and tie Who will look good at your funeral Spy! It's time to murder this track You'll find a knife in its back Got equipment? Watch me break it Saw me die, I probably faked it

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Fly. 05 December 2022

Chicken Little is a 1943 short film created by Walt Disney during World War II and directed by Clyde Geronimi. The short was based on the Europen folk tale 'Henny Penny', known in the United States as 'Chicken Little'. It is an anti-Nazi film showing the evils of mass hysteria.

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Ralph Hentall 19 January 2021

This is what a nuclear war can achieve. So can Covid 19. Digest this poem well.

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edwin muir 01 December 2022

covid doesn't exist its all fake, also vaccines give you autism

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marlen 26 March 2020

studied this poem when in school 60years ago seems relevant to the awful happenings of today

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Christian 02 May 2020

I came back to this poem today to find again just how it said " Thereafter nothing" , but all of the words are right. Within the wider Corona destruction, my family has failed and I have lost my two boys of 7 and 2, and finally last Sunday all the talking with their mother was at an end.

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Dick Sniffer69 08 December 2022

Nobody cares.

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Annette 24 October 2019

It's almost like a film. So atmospheric and makes you feel humble when you realise how ineffective we are without our radios and tractors and " stuff" yet the horses still come to our aid.

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Keren Carter 05 October 2019

A brilliant atmospheric piece on regeneration and ultimately hope. 'Free servitude' an affecting idea. Like my dog.

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alexis 19 May 2019

what is the connection of this poem to the world?

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Vince Handley 18 December 2019

A war which lasted seven days has wiped out civilisation. A year on, a small community survives. They are not in contact with any other community. Nor are they sure if other communities have survived. The survivors must carry on living. A herd of horses arrive, also survivors, also isolated. Slowly, the humans and the horses renew their ancient bond. Their mutual survival becomes more certain.

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Scarlette 21 March 2019

I don’t get the poem It’s confusing me What is he talking about?

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Your mum 27 November 2018

Bored of higher english amiritttt

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Amen! ! ! !

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Shaun 14 August 2018

I need 20 lines poem on animals but i am not getting one so u its bad and the person who is singing the poem that person is annoying so do something

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Maureen Fox 21 June 2018

This is a truly memorable poem that encapsulates my personal feelings of connection with horses despite my inability to ride. Romantic? Perhaps. But deep feelings and connections sometimes do wear romantic garments and are not of less importance by doing so.

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Phil Ball 04 April 2020

It's nothing to do with horses. The horses are a metaphor for our general neglect of nature.

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Lalit 17 June 2018

Please add poetic devices also

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Adol Hitler 23 April 2018

Yooo, this poem is as good as the sticky icky, finna bust a nutt over the screen. YEET.

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bruh, ur mom gae #gamersriseup

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Dick Sniffer69 13 December 2022

Yo adolf! hows it goin my man?

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Sakhi 05 March 2018

Mujhe ek question ka answer chahiye How do the children pass their time on TV Plz answer me.

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june uribe 13 August 2018

We read this poem at school in lusaka in 1960, and I haven't found it in any of the poetry books I have, so I am delightrd to have tracked down! It still moves me, over 50 years on.

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ryan just ryan 13 November 2017

this poem sucks hard body I gotta do dis for school #bored af

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Freda Adams 01 January 2017

Let us hope President Trump reads this and thinks awhile!

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Freda Adams 01 January 2017

Let us hope that President Trump reads this poem and thinks awhile!

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Anne Williams 27 March 2016

Lovely writing - maybe Eden is childhood too?

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KinkyMan 6969 20 January 2015

Wow Edwin is a wet man... He gets poon #420

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edwin muir 28 November 2022

yes i do

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joe biden 01 December 2022

The US presidency approves of this post

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donald j trump 05 December 2022

i too approve, as former best president

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