A carved horse head with green ribbons is reflected in a small oval hand mirror.

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Pam Brown

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes horses as a projection of qualities people admire and wish to possess. Strength, power and beauty become part of an imagined escape from ordinary life. The passage presents the horse as both a mirror of aspiration and a possibility of something beyond the mundane.

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