This poem, `The Horses' by Edwin Muir is a poem giving us an optimistic image of the future after an imaginary nuclear holocaust. It describes to us the experience of survivors of an imaginary nuclear war, the return to nature and the people who turn their backs on technology. It is based on ideas mainly from the First World War and the `seven day war' that Muir writes about in his poem. This blank verse poem is divided into two sections, the first section is a picture of the world after the nuclear holocaust and the second section describes the coming of the `strange horses' and the return to nature.

I highly recommend this poem to any person who enjoys reading poems written with old literature. One of the reasons I recommend this poem is because of the way Edwin Muir takes us back to the past, both...