... though it has bettered itself but in essence is retarded by its own destructive nature. A Kingdom of Sorrowing change, in an otherwise constant environment is Harwood's motive for writing this poem. "The gull's flight aches in my shoulders. It will suffer no change, cannot offer itself to be changed, cannot suffer:" It is by this expression of emotion that Harwood stimulates ... : "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, thus this poem is clearly a self analysis of Harwood's ...

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