"Horses" by Ted Hughes

This particular poem begins and ends in darkness.  It's as if the world has frozen and become this horrible place where their is but one wrong belief.  All this talk of a grey world really represents Hughes views on the idea that the holiness and purity of faith and religion has been lost forever.  The horses that are seen and described in the poem are the only thing left that still holds the faith and purity that once existed.  It's as if Hughes still wanted to leave a piece of hope for the lonely world hoping that someone or something many see what the world has become; the world has become nothing but a lonely dark place where the idea of faith and religion is just that an idea that will never have true meaning if the people do not stop seeing it and not believing in it.  Though Hughes really no longer believed in the sanctity of having faith I believe that he wrote this poem as a form of hope.  Hope that someone somewhere could restore the belief that he and many others once had.  Hope that the one thing that was still pure had the power to restore the world from the lonely grey world that now surrounds everyone as they go through life.