... anyone except the wind. Harwood also compares the image of the young child "drawing aimless patterns in the dirt" to the nature of the lady, in a sense the lady is aimless to any new self-change in life. The poignant words "Too late" at the end of the first stanza indicate that it is to late to change her self. Harwood writes the poem in the present tense with time shifts to the past "Someone ... , beating his only/wing, as I watched, afraid by the fallen gun" and consequently understands why her father had those boundaries in the first place. The second of the two poems shows a large ga...

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