Ted Huges

Today I would like to talk about Ted Huges "The Horses". As you already know I picked this poem because it had to do with animals. And if you don't know by now that I am a zoology major, clearly you haven't been going to class. But that's not the only reason I picked this poem. The detail in this porm is amazing, the vivid picture it paints is something much different from that of Elizebeth Bishops who I wrote about last week. Sure she had wonderful detail about the fish and so one, but Huges puts you in that setting and make you feel chills as he breathes into the cold air. One of my favorite quotes from this porm is as follows, "There, still they stood,/But now steaming and glistening under the flow of the light," ( lines 27-28). Not only have I been around horses my entire life but I know just how masculint and powerful these creatures are. I feel that Ted Huges does a very good job of painting that picture of these horses you would see hanging on a wall. Feeling not only his breath but there's as well.