"change is never-ending"

Harwood’s “In the park” deals with change in a few ways. The persona in the poem experiences the negative change induced by the labors of motherhood. The poem looks directly at the change occurred through the everyday life of a woman. Her children and present life through her role as a

Her past lover is amazed at her present situation. “Time gold great surprises”, he is superior to her. Having her lover place pity on her conveys that she was once a different person, happier, smarter and more intellectual. The pity given by her lover conveys just how mentally and physically draining motherhood is. In addition, emphasizes how it has changed her by draining her intellectual capabilities and most of all, her happiness.

She places all her time and energy in her children. “She sits in the park”, she has taken her children to the park, and although she is not active, her motionless image reveals her monotonous lifestyle, through the entrapment of society’s expectations.

The Persona is pitied by a past lover, “to/late to feign indifference to that casual nod” and is embarrassed by her inevitably bleak situation. She did not want to talk to her past lover because she is ashamed at how her life has changed and at what she has become.

The growth and development of a hu

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, added responsibilities, past lover, “in park”, added responsibilities motherhood, responsibilities motherhood, poem looks, negative aspects associated, aspects associated, placed society, persona poem, changing self, change change,