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Stephen Spender

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

Dreams

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The speaker describes how, as a child, their hopes and ambitions were controlled and shaped entirely by their parent's desires and expectations. They felt dominated and pressured by the parent's forceful words, which influenced their thoughts and dreams in a harsh and overwhelming way.

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