"The Rain Horse" by Ted Hughes is replete with nuances of myth and folklore. The suggestions develops the conflicts that the man encounters with the elements of Nature that seem in opposition to him. As the narrative opens the man stands on "a rabbit-riddled hedgebank." Then, the man realizes that he has gone too far: What had set out as a walk along pleasantly-remembered tarmac lanes had turned dreamily by gate and path and hedge-gap into...
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