Dream (Taras Shevchenko poem)

"Dream" (Ukrainian: Сон, romanized: Son) is a comical poem by Taras Shevchenko created in 1844. Written as a lyrical pamphlet, it is the first work of satire by the poet and one of the first in new Ukrainian literature. Directed against social and national oppression and against the socio-political system of autocracy, serfdom and the church, the poem condemned the slavish obedience of the masses and the national treason of the top levels of the Ukrainian society, which went to the service of the imperial power.