My Parents by Stephen Spender
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Overprotective parents discriminating against working class
“My parents kept me from children who were rough”
Simile - harshness of bullying
“threw words like stone and wore torn clothes”
Financial difficulty of the rough children
“thighs shown through rags”
The rough children seem to be free
“climbed cliffs”
Anaphora - Fear and loneliness
“I feared” “I feared”
Simile - Supernatural strength
“their muscles like iron”
Irony - Speaker views rough children like animals but then gets treated like one
“jerking hands and thier knees tight on my arms”
Simile - Animalistic, dehumanising the working class
“Like dogs to bark at my world”
Pronouns - separating social class
“I” “They”
Form
even line lengths, free verse
Structure
Quatrain