The Rain Horse

The Rain Horse

Opening
1. Rejected
  1. Impractical clothing
    1. 'grey suit'
  2. Business man now
  3. 'no longer recognised him'
  4. Denied intimacy
  5. 'blundering'
    1. Lack of beloning
    2. Awkward/clumsy
2. Bleak
  1. 'pleasantly remembered tarmac lanes'
    1. Lost spiritual bond
      1. Time
      2. Experiences
  2. 'bare fields black and sodden'
  3. Disappointment for reader
    1. Nothing happened
Ending
1. Deceasing pace
  1. Breaking down-brain effected
  2. 'freeezing'
    1. Stopped
2. 'sucking'
  1. Continues battle
3. 'healing drops'
  1. Further hints at guilt
4. 'sat staring at the ground'
  1. meditative posture
    1. Transfigured by experience?
    2. Absence of closure
  2. Confused
    1. Reader does not know what he's thinking
Battle with The Horse
1. Emblem of nature
  1. 'tall as a statue'
    1. More than an animal
  2. Rejected him
2. weather foreshadows confrontation
  1. 'sky grown much darker'
  2. 'pressing down'
    1. Choking, captured by nature
  3. Ominous tone
3. 'blood beating in his head'
  1. Primitive
    1. Anger at rejection?
  2. Alliteration evokes adrenalin
Sightings of The Horse
1. 'nightmarish leopard'
  1. Evokes fear
    1. Foreshadows hostility
2. Woods - Separated from world
  1. 'rushed and lulled'
    1. Tranquil, calm
      1. Contrasts dynamic battle
    2. Child again
      1. Seeked protection
      2. 'suspended from life and time'
3. 'high and alert'
  1. Combative posture
    1. Defending teritory
      1. Further rejection
4. 'red-veined eyeball'
  1. Maddnes
    1. Uncontrolled monster
5. Symbolic representation of subconcious
  1. Guilt of not belonging

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