I love the imagery in this poem. Wright does an excellent job of joining words that are not often found together to create vivid images in the reader's mind. When I think of eyes darkening, I don't often associate them with kindness, but he creates that picture within my mind when he writes about how the ponies' eyes "Darken with kindness." Going on the describe them as "wet swans," and the slenderer one's ear as being "delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist," he makes them seem almost mythical and unreal.

I agree with Ranelle that the speaker almost makes the animals out to be people, lending them human characteristics such as the ability to feel loneliness and love. His description of one of the ponies' ears also compares her to humans, saying she possesses the delicacy of the skin over a girl's wrist.