In the poem the “glass jar” the young boy’s innocence is usurped when he is introduced to the complexity of the sexual relationship. Harwood’s use of music i.e. “score” is to represent a spiritual dimension: an emotional world where the boy cannot comprehend and no child can be part of. The persona’s inability to comprehend what he had witnesses, added with his fear of night creatures which he tried to dispel by capturing light in a jar “ to exorcize monsters that whispering would rise nightly from the intricate wood that ringed his bed” further intensified his horror and loss of innocence and faith.

The use of religious imagery and biblical allusions in the poem; mainly in the 1st and 2nd stanzas represented the child’s faith in the sun i.e. religion. The ti

The 1st paragraph is a recount of her youth, her description of a washing line- “silver skeletal arms” is an alliteration which represents the richness of her youth. The washing line is symbolic of her freedom and youth and represents the change in attitude toward life.

After being killed in the Matrix by the AI, Neo is resurrected by the love of a fellow warrior Trinity and experiences a sudden change in self as he assumes the power and destiny that the Oracle had prophesised. “I’m going to show these people a world you didn’t want them to see, a world without you, a world where anything is possible.”

Contrast to the 1st section “Barn owl” the 2nd section “Nightfall” presents the narrator, now a mature adult with the prospect of losing their father and contrastingly has a calmer acceptance of death. The subdued tone of language of “nightfall”- “we stand in time long promised land” reflects the inevitability of death and an acceptance of death.

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