The Rain Horse

Explore how Hughes gradually builds up a sense of menace in The pelting Horse. In The Rain Horse, Hughes reflects his emotions of dismay, frustration and anger through imagery phrases of threat. He uses the horse as a symbolic source of his feelings and describes them in figures of speech. The return of the young valet de chambre to the farm after twelve old age made him a complete a stranger to the land which he didnt accept.The narrator manages to describe how this man is disillusioned, using the metaphor so he waited, trying to nudge the right feelings alive depicting his disappointment towards the land that he had not visited for so long , and this is conveyed in the following quote This land no longer recognized him , and he looked back at it coldly The persona seems to have a powerful sense of disconnection with the land surrounding him, and he appears with unease and frustration,felt nothing but the obtuseness of feeling nothing, boredom and suddenly impatience .The narr ator described well the young mans mixed feelings of innervation and frustration by using alliteration so old and stiff and stupid which lead him to an eventual(prenominal) anger towards himself anger against himself for blundering into this mud-trap . The phrase remembered or shouted at as a trespasser deterred him gives the melodic theme of how the man did not have a good history with the farmer since he is mentioned as a trespasser. The writer used the horse to strengthen the idea of the land to the young man rejection .